make common settings into "specific" settings?

[peter.malik]

I think it's a bit unfortunate that the "page range" settings are only adjustable for all reference types at once. For instance, some manuals of style require a colon in a citation of a journal and a comma for all other types. Under the present circumstances, however, that's impossible to do.

Also, it'd be helpful to have one setting for a long citation and another one for a short citation. Some formats don't like a comma before a page range in a long citation (when preceded by round brackets), whereas a comma is obviously needed before a page range of a short citation.

[Jon]

You mean Cited Pages I presume. You can override the beginning and ending punctuation for a specific citation using the backslash delimiter:

temp citation@\: \54-59

will have Bookends output a colon before the cited pages, regardless of what is entered in the Before field in the format.

Smith, 2014: 54-59

Jon
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