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Using the correct dash for page ranges #230

Closed haji-ali closed 2 years ago

haji-ali commented 2 years ago

In the last version of betterbib, I noticed that the page range are using - or sometimes a unicode character for en-dash (I guess depending on the original CrossRef entry). Can these always be replaced by --?

nschloe commented 2 years ago

There now is the -p option that let's you specify the separator. It defaults to -- right now, but this might change depending on the backlash. (Some people argue that the BibTeX file is just for storing information, not for styling.)

anntzer commented 2 years ago

Unfortunately, betterbib now keeps expanding - into --, which means that repeatedly updating a bib file (e.g. because you added more entries) progressively turns the things into ---- then -------- and so on.

haji-ali commented 2 years ago

@nschloe, oh I see. I still think that the em and en dashes could be replaced by -- and --- when passing -a which does not seem to be the case currently (see https://github.com/nschloe/betterbib/issues/218#issuecomment-998717759).

nschloe commented 2 years ago

@haji-ali Handled in https://github.com/nschloe/betterbib/pull/239.