Georg Mayr-Duffner

> Allow me first to complain that this is one of those archaic style conventions like op cit that I wish would go away. 😜 I agree. But in some...

> * new page range options: > > * ~`psq`~ `collapse-following-page` => collapse two-page ranges into "starting page" + "f." > * ~`psqq`~ `collapse-following-pages`=> same as ~`psq`~ `following-page` + collapse...

> > @denismaier I understand that with this setup you suggest that only in certain cases, an open-ended page-range will be rendered with "starting-page" + "ff.". IMO, it should be...

> > (and perhaps `collapse-following-pages` should set `collapse-following-page` as well?) > > Sure. These are not booleans. They are selected as `page-range-format="collapse-following-page"` or `page-range-format="collapse-following-pages"`. > > `page-range-format="collapse-following-pages"` would collapse two-page...

And @fbennett do you have a preference for any of the two models?

I’m not sure, this is what you’re missing, but it’s what comes to my mind: - Most of the hard-coded rules would never be touched so it makes sense to...

I think the big advantage of a limited set of predefined patterns is that it can be thoroughly tested. I really can't tell how many patterns would appear but for...

> I accept the point that we could be doing all this for exactly one conflicting rule, and technically we could do some research and squish all the world's punctuation...

I think, allowing both is ultimately the correct way to do it as a ruleset might apply for the whole style and yet a specific locale might want to set...

How I understand it: imagine, Chicago mandates one set of collapsing rules which, however contradicts to, let’s say, French orthographic rules. The style-specific set would go into `cs:style`, while the...