How to properly modify the "page" macro

batirbeksamandarov · November 24, 2025

The bibliography contains literature in different languages (English, Russian, Uzbek).
When displaying bibliography pages, they are displayed as "pp. 41–47." To be compatible with each language, I modified the "page" macro as follows:

<macro name="page">
  <choose>
    <if variable="language" value="uz">
      <group delimiter=" ">
        <text value="-B."/>
        <text variable="page"/>
      </group>
    </if>
    <else-if variable="language" value="ru">
      <group delimiter=" ">
        <text value="-С."/>
        <text variable="page"/>
      </group>
    </else-if>
    <else>
      <group delimiter=" ">
        <text value="-pp."/>
        <text variable="page"/>
      </group>
    </else>
  </choose>
</macro>

But throughout the literature, it appears as "-B."
For each literature included in ZOTERO, the language is indicated as “en”, “ru”, “uz” respectively.
How will my problem be solved correctly?

adamsmith · November 25, 2025

In standard CSL this just isn't possible (you can't check for the content of a variable). There's csl-m code, which will work in Zotero and you can find posts on that in the forums -- basically you define separate layouts for each language in the citation/bibliography