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Allow "paragraph" pagination option for electronic sources #28
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From my understanding, the MLA guidelines here are indicating how to label paragraph numbers within individual parenthetical citations. By contrast, this As indicated in the StackExchange page you've linked, this field is meant to change the label before numbers in citations. Postnotes in citations made by biblatex-mla do not print a label (i.e., "pp." or "pages") because MLA style omits these labels when unnecessary. Of course, sometimes they're necessary. If you'd like to indicate that the number in your postnote refers to a paragraph instead of a page, you can add this label in the brackets: It may be desirable for biblatex-mla to support the |
Changes to postnote prefix handling with pagination field to address #28
Changes to prefix handling with bookpagination field to address #28
localization changes to "paragraph" string in postnote prefix, related to #28
I've been revisiting this issue today, and I've now added the ability to automatically add non-page labels "pars." before a postnote in a citation. These changes are available on GitHub, and they'll be part of the next release submitted to CTAN. Please be aware that the implementation is different from what was requested. Biblatex makes two fields available for adding these labels to two places, and biblatex-mla now supports these:
Although the field names are not as clear as one might hope for, the distinction makes sense. Citations tell where within a work a particular quotation or paraphrase is drawn from, but the bibliographic needs to tell where within the world a work can be found. A citation might point to line 5 of a poem, but the bibliographic entry needs to point to page 35 of the poetry collection. For this reason, your example bibliography is not well formed. Here's a suggested revision:
I've removed the Before submitting an update to CTAN, I'll want to step through all possible key values to see if any others need abbreviated: I've already applied |
I found that this style does not allow for "paragraph" pagination style. I tried using something like this:
But it doesn't place pars. in the bibliographic entry for the paragraph numbers 3-5 (I am using the answer at the stackexchange question ). Instead it just puts "pp. 3-5"
I want this because according to Purdue Owl and their details of electronic citations (link) they say websites should be located by paragraph and thus they recommend using "pars / pars." in a citation entry instead of "p. / pp."
Is there a way to do this that I am not familiar with?
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