single page number in [] results in plural

Is there any way to prevent a single page number in square brackets to trigger the plural? Can I change this in the style?

Example:

entering "[10]" in the page number field will give:
pp. [10], but should be p. [10]
  • edited 9 days ago
    It's a bit untypical to see what you're describing. What style are you using?

    But sure, you can set plural=never on a given label and it only ever use singular.
    See https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html#label
  • Sorry, as soon as I posted this I realised that I changed the style to do this whenever there is not a number in the pages field.

    Changing this back solves the problem - sort of, or not at all, because now it will not pluralise for a number of cases like

    [10-12]
    10f.
    [10f.]

    etc.

    So basically it is either one problem or the other. I see no way to get a working solution for both, which isn't nice. Zotero should be able to parse the content of the pages (or other numbers) field better.

    Setting it to never pluralise is not a solution, as the above cases plus the very normal page ranges should all be plural, ie pp. 10f. or pp. 10-12.

    Oh well, one cannot have it all.
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