Option to keep separator in multi citations

xipal
In on case, I've got sometimes a final dot "." in the citation details of the page or number. I need to use ff. or f. to indicated and the next page(s). This would look like that :

AUTHOR, p. 1 f.; OTHER, p. 1.

However this is dropped at the moment. And the layout delimiter is skipped, which leads to this format

AUTHOR, no 1 f. OTHER, p. 1.

I need to keep the ";" for every case. How can I do that ? I'm assuming it is an option which I haven't find yet.




Thanks in advance and best regards,
  • bwiernik
    Type the delimiter manually. The collapsing of punctuation is a generally desired behavior to avoid duplicative delimiters appearing unintentionally. The format you describe is quite rare, so I don’t expect that a workaround to accommodate it is likely to be implemented in the citation processor.
  • xipal
    Thank you for your helpful input, bwiernik!

    Yes, it is peculiar; that's legal citation in Switzerland, so it really is a niche.

    And agreed, the collapsing of punctuation looks more pleasing to me. Actually, in my case, the name in small case should be fine enough to delimit a unit of citation, but I couldn't find a guideline that allows me to do so.

    In any case, I'm happy with your solution, which worked fine for me. To provide more details if someone comes here, here is the approach:

    To force the appearance of ".;", it is necessary to enter the full separation in the "suffix" part of the citation dialog box. So the suffix becomes, in the example in the first post:

    p. 1 f.;

    This causes the collapsing, but as there is already a ";" at the end, the result is as intended.

    As an extension, I'm investigating if the collapsing could happen on the "." of "f.", which would be more pleasing, at least to me. If possible, then this would just mean that the solution is to "drop" any final punctuation in the suffix. Therefore, the suffix becomes "p. 1 f" and the result would be simpler. If it is the last citation, then my rule adds a ".", which is fine. Otherwise, the ";" acts as a separator, which produces this result:

    AUTHOR, p. 1 f; OTHER, p. 1.
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