Open andrasbarany opened 4 years ago
Wouldn't this also omit any other type of pagination (columns, sections, etc.) defined in the pagination
field in bibliography entries, though?
As @carbeck says, this is too blunt a solution. You can certainly use that locally in your preamble, if you prefer it this way. BTW: the example from Sharvit (2017: p.3) was (erroneously, perhaps) typeset with the leftover \pgcitealt
command.
If we can figure out how to just disable the "p./pp." prefix and keep the other pagination options, we might consider it. Reading the manual and the source code, I couldn't figure it out immediately.
I agree that there is no high-level option. However, when looking a bit lower, one could redefine the macro \blx@imc@mkpageprefix
by setting the default to none
instead of page
and by adding an extra test for cases, when page
is set explicitly in the bib file. This way other values for pagination
can still be used:
\renewrobustcmd*{\blx@imc@mkpageprefix}[1][pagination]{%
\begingroup
%%%\def\blx@tempa{\blx@mkpageprefix{page}}%
\def\blx@tempa{\blx@mkpageprefix@i}% <-- default 'none' instead of 'page'
\iffieldundef{#1}
{}
{\ifboolexpr{ test { \iffieldequalstr{#1}{none} }%
or test { \iffieldequalstr{#1}{page} }}% <-- if page is set in bib file
{\def\blx@tempa{\blx@mkpageprefix@i}}
{\iffieldbibstring{#1}
{\edef\blx@tempa{\blx@mkpageprefix{\thefield{#1}}}}
{\blx@warning@entry{%
Unknown pagination type '\strfield{#1}'}}}}%
\@ifnextchar[%]
{\blx@tempa}
{\blx@tempa[\@firstofone]}}
As is, a command like
\textcite[xx]{citekey}
outputs "Author (Year: p. xx)", where "p." is part of thepostnote
in biblatex.As far as I can tell, the Unified Style Sheet does not mention this, but a cursory look at two recent, random papers from Language and Semantics and Pragmatics suggests that adding "p." before a page reference is not actually what usually happens. In Bruening (2018: 3) and Sharvit (2017: 31), references to page numbers do not involve "p." but simply follow the year after colon, that is ‟(Year: xx)”. To me this seems more in line with the style sheet's credo of avoiding superfluous punctuation and font-styles.
In terms of the implementation, this seems to be a matter of specifying
\DeclareFieldFormat{postnote}{#1}
which removes "p." from the postnote. Could this change be considered?
References
Bruening 2018. Language, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2018.0000 Sharvit 2017. Semantics & Pragmatics, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.10.1