plural pp. xx f.

JGebauer

Is there a way to make a style use the plural pp. when the pages field has a page number followed by f., ie

pp. 32 f.

instead of p. 32 f.

while keeping this contextual?

damnation

Yes.

You'd make this:
<group delimiter=" ">
<label variable="locator" form="short" plural="never"/>
<text variable="locator"/>
</group>


into this:
<group delimiter=" ">
<labelvariable="locator" form="short"/>
<text variable="locator"/>
</group>

JGebauer

I think this already is. It works fine when entering
pp. 32–33

but not with

p. 32 f.

I am in the Visual Editor, but looking at the code I could find the middle two lines to be exactly what you give in your second example.

I did find a work around by defining a conditional, which sets the plural to always when the page field does not contain a number. 32 f. is not a number...

That seems to work, but if there is a better/easier way let me know.

damnation

Then you need to set to always:
<label variable="locator" form="short" plural="always"/>

https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html

JGebauer

But if I set to always generally, it will end up with

pp. 32

which is not what I want. Plural should only be used for
32-33
and
32 f.
but not for
32

That's why I defined another conditional.

damnation

That's not possible. CSL does not know anything about the contents.

JGebauer

My work around works fine, though.

Zotero does know whether the content is a number or not, that's all that is required. It also knows whether the content is just one number or a range. So it certainly does know about the contents.

Anyway, I solved it.

However, I do think that this is a short coming of the current implementation: It is not uncommon to use pp. 32 f. to indicate that the reference is pointing to two pages. In which case it should render to pp.