I realized right after I hit the send button that a problem with my proposal to
extend page range formatting to dates was staring me in the face: the OUP style
guide normally requests minimal formatting, but does not want this applied to
dates that span centuries (to avoid something like 1866–901). I rather doubt,
however, that anyone would ever want a date written this way, so perhaps this
could simply be added as an exception for date ranges.
All best,
Andrew Dunning
On 4 Aug 2014, at 11:24 a.m., Andrew Dunning <andunn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I’m wondering whether the next version of CSL could provide expanded support
> for page range formats. In addition to the ones listed at
> <http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html#appendix-v-page-range-formats>,
> I can think of the following additions:
>
> - The MHRA format (see
> <http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/StyleGuideV3_1.pdf>, p.
> 47), which is like Chicago but wants a leading zero, e.g. 13–15, 44–47,
> 100–22, 104–08, 1933–39 but 1098–1101.
>
> - The OUP format, described at
> <http://global.oup.com/uk/academic/authors/AuthorGuidelinesMain/HouseStyle/#lev20>
> (presumably this also matches Hart’s Rules), which is like the minimal style
> but requests, 'Do not omit digits between 10 and 19 in any hundred.’ I
> believe this is supposed to fit with English pronunciation.
>
> - I think I’ve also seen a variant on the 'minimal-two’ style that avoids
> leading zeros.
>
> - Conceivably, there might also be people who would want minimal-three and
> minimal-four.
>
> I’m sure that one could find some other strange circumstances; there is
> probably some question of how thorough CSL should be with this.
>
> Additionally, could the concept of page ranges within CSL be expanded to
> number ranges in general? I can’t think of any reason, for instance, why one
> wouldn’t want the style’s number range format to apply to a date range as
> well, and there are some odd cases where it would be applicable to a volume,
> issue, or series number range.
>
> All best,
>
> Andrew Dunning
> PhD Candidate
> Collaborative Program in Editing Medieval Texts
> Centre for Medieval Studies
> University of Toronto
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