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Re: en dashes and page ranges
user name
2007-01-31 15:36:28
Hi Andrew

Seems to work fine with EndNote v9. For example:

Gayle, V. (2000). Inferential statistics. In D. Burton
(Ed.), Research
training for social scientists (pp. 385-413). bond: Sage.

In my thesis, there is an en dash in that page range.

HTH

Regards,
Peter Sim

Whangarei, NZ

> With the recent interest in en dashes, it seems
appropriate to flag a 
> problem that I've come across in the past (and can't
find discussed in

> the archives):
>
> With older versions of EndNote (e.g. EN8), I've found
that EN cannot 
> distinguish a range with a dash as being 'plural' in
length. An
example:
>     * consider an output style which conludes with: 
p.^pp. Pages
>     * if an article has a single page, this will
produce: p. 275
>     * if an article has several pages, this will
produce: pp. 405-406
>
> However, that plural is only recognised if you use a
hyphen in the 
> Pages field. If you have the correct en dash, then EN
routinely sees 
> only a single entry, and you end up with: p. 405-406
[with en dash].
>
> Tech support at Thomson recognised this as a problem
with EN8. So I 
> can boil the consequences into two simple
questions/actions:
>
> (1) Has the problem been corrected in later versions?
If so, I'd love 
> to hear about it.
>
> (2) Regardless, anyone using older versions needs to be
aware of this 
> glitch, should you want to use the singular^plural
feature in a 
> template.



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