[texhax] Questions about Bibtex page range setting

[Thomas Schneider]

Ruan:

> I have a question about how to customize bibliography appearance
> using bibtex. Normally, the standard styles convert a single dash
> (as in 7-33) to the double dash used in TeX to denote number ranges
> (as in 7--33). If I want to maintain the single dash in my
> bibliography, which option should I set to achieve this?

I have old entries that contain only one dash and I just checked -
they typeset just like with two dashes.  So you can just do it,
nothing special needed.  It's not clear to me why there is this
convention of double dashes ... maybe someone knows?

Given that the dashes look the same after being typeset, why should
you want to have single dashes in the database?

Tom

  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
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