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    From Peter Flynn@peter@silmaril.ie to comp.text.tex on Sun Aug 16 13:47:53 2026
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    In some critical disciplines, the "pages in work" bibliographic value is
    given as a roman number for the number of pages of prelims (forewords, prefaces, commentaries etc) and then the arabic number for the pages of
    the author's original text, separated by a plus sign, for example

    xxxvii + 242

    What would be a good way to represent this in a .bib file?

    Peter
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  • From ram@ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) to comp.text.tex on Sun Aug 16 13:27:08 2026
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    Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> wrote or quoted:
    In some critical disciplines, the "pages in work" bibliographic value is >given as a roman number for the number of pages of prelims (forewords, >prefaces, commentaries etc) and then the arabic number for the pages of
    the author's original text, separated by a plus sign, for example
    xxxvii + 242
    What would be a good way to represent this in a .bib file?

    What about, for example,

    @book{exampleBook,
    author = {John Doe},
    title = {An Example Book with Complex Pagination},
    publisher = {Academic Press},
    year = {2023},
    pages = {xxxvii + 242}
    }

    ?


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  • From Peter Flynn@peter@silmaril.ie to comp.text.tex on Sun Aug 16 16:09:15 2026
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    On 16/08/2026 14:27, Stefan Ram wrote:
    Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> wrote or quoted:
    In some critical disciplines, the "pages in work" bibliographic value is
    given as a roman number for the number of pages of prelims (forewords,
    prefaces, commentaries etc) and then the arabic number for the pages of
    the author's original text, separated by a plus sign, for example
    xxxvii + 242
    What would be a good way to represent this in a .bib file?

    What about, for example,

    @book{exampleBook,
    author = {John Doe},
    title = {An Example Book with Complex Pagination},
    publisher = {Academic Press},
    year = {2023},
    pages = {xxxvii + 242}
    }

    Yes, that's what I had been doing, and surprisingly, biber has not been objecting. I just wondered if there was a more exact representation (ie
    does any style implement additional page-count fields)? eg

    prelims = {xxxvii},
    pages = 242,
    pagetotal = 279,


    Peter
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