Re: [docbook-apps] Page numbers in citations in XHTML5

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Christopher,
Thanks for the information.

Regarding using "22ff", the attribute data type is just text, so you could 
just write begin="22ff" and you would get "p. 22ff".

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

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From: "Christopher Culver" <crculver@christopherculver.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:29 AM
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Page numbers in citations in XHTML5

> "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net> writes:
> > It seems to be an unsupported feature.  This comment appears in the
> > template for biblioref:
> >
> > <!-- To be done: add support for begin, end, and units attributes -->
> > [...]
> > I suppose a simple presentation might handle the most common cases:
> >
> > the value of 'units', followed by a space, followed by the value of
> > 'begin', and if the value of 'end' is not blank, then dash, followed
> > by the value of 'end'.
>
> While the result might be intelligible, it will not be acceptable in
> technical writing. If the "units" are 'pages', simply putting that into
> the output is not enough. If there is a range of multiple pages, it must
> be changed (in the English locale at least) to "pp." followed by a
> non-breaking space, the value of "begin", an en dash, and the value of
> "end". But if the value of "begin" and "end" are the same, the units
> "pages" must be expessed as "p." followed by a non-breaking space and
> the value of "begin".
>
> And here there are possibly limitations with the Docbook format. How
> could an author specify e.g. "p. 22ff"?
>
> Christopher Culver
>
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