Format code help needed
Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 7:56 pm
I am trying to help a friend massage the Chicago 15th A style into submission, and have run into an obstacle I seem unable to overcome. I am trying to produce the following output in a footnote citation:
1. Christopher Bayly, Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 313.
2. Christopher Bayly, Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 313-314.
3. Christopher Bayly, Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Starting conditions: in the "citation options" tab of the formats manager for Chicago 15th A, the "Cited Pages" field has "p. ^pp. " in the Before textbox, and "." in the After textbox.
The following:
produces appropriate output for cases 1 & 2, but outputs
In trying to convert this spurious comma into a period, we have managed to produce some very weird output, that we are unable to explain. We have tried the following:
NB: the following examples are identical to the above up to `)`
which we thought should output the comma only when p- is not empty, but which produces errors in all three cases (suppressing the comma and space before the page numbers in cases 1 & 2, suppressing the final period in case 3).
outputs case 3 correctly, but replaces the comma before the page numbers with a period in cases 1 & 2 (what!?).
outputs the same, but eliminates the space after the erroneous period.
suppresses the comma and space in cases 1 & 2 and eliminates the final period in case 3. Enclosing the final period in back ticks (`.`) restores it in case 3, but inserts it in place of the comma and space in cases 1 & 2. Enclosing it in dollar signs ($.$) or tildes (~.~) is the same as not enclosing it at all.
Growing increasingly desperate, we tried conditionals:
outputs case 3 correctly, but outputs a period instead of a comma and space before the page numbers in cases 1 & 2.
I think we have exhausted our options. Can someone explain what we are doing wrong? Or are we asking the impossible?
1. Christopher Bayly, Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 313.
2. Christopher Bayly, Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 313-314.
3. Christopher Bayly, Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Starting conditions: in the "citation options" tab of the formats manager for Chicago 15th A, the "Cited Pages" field has "p. ^pp. " in the Before textbox, and "." in the After textbox.
The following:
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a, t$, $$trans. $u3*|~, ~u2~ ed.~~, ~u13~ vols.~~, vol. ~v|~, ~f` (`l: u, d$; reprint $u12`)`, p-.in case 3.Christopher Bayly, Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996),
In trying to convert this spurious comma into a period, we have managed to produce some very weird output, that we are unable to explain. We have tried the following:
NB: the following examples are identical to the above up to `)`
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`)`|~, ~p-.Code: Select all
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`)`$, $p-.Growing increasingly desperate, we tried conditionals:
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`)`{, p-.^.}I think we have exhausted our options. Can someone explain what we are doing wrong? Or are we asking the impossible?