[texhax] Questions about Bibtex page range setting
Thomas Schneider
schneidt at mail.nih.gov
Fri Jun 1 19:33:59 CEST 2012
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.
Senior Investigator
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory
Molecular Information Theory Group
Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent)
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