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Posted: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:36:28 -0500
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Hi Andrew
Seems to work fine with EndNote v9. For example:
Gayle, V. (2000). Inferential statistics. In D. Burton (Ed.), Research
training for social scientists (pp. 385-413). London: Sage.
In my thesis, there is an en dash in that page range.
HTH
Regards,
Peter Sim
Whangarei, NZ
> With the recent interest in en dashes, it seems appropriate to flag a
> problem that I've come across in the past (and can't find discussed in
> the archives):
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> With older versions of EndNote (e.g. EN8), I've found that EN cannot
> distinguish a range with a dash as being 'plural' in length. An
example:
> * consider an output style which conludes with: p.^pp. Pages
> * if an article has a single page, this will produce: p. 275
> * if an article has several pages, this will produce: pp. 405-406
>
> However, that plural is only recognised if you use a hyphen in the
> Pages field. If you have the correct en dash, then EN routinely sees
> only a single entry, and you end up with: p. 405-406 [with en dash].
>
> Tech support at Thomson recognised this as a problem with EN8. So I
> can boil the consequences into two simple questions/actions:
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> (1) Has the problem been corrected in later versions? If so, I'd love
> to hear about it.
>
> (2) Regardless, anyone using older versions needs to be aware of this
> glitch, should you want to use the singular^plural feature in a
> template.
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