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  • Biblatex: non-standard dates ignored

    From Dr Engelbert Buxbaum@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 21 11:19:34 2024
    Hi,

    in the following entry

    @ARTICLE{Met-84b,
    title = {Untersuchung über die mesodermalen {P}hagocyten
    einiger {W}irbeltiere},
    author = {Metschnikoff, E.},
    journal = {Biologisches Centralblatt},
    date = {1883--1884},
    volume = {3},
    number = {III},
    pages = {560-565},
    url = {http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/27783 \#page/572/mode/1up},
    }

    biblatex throws an error message: "article entry 'Met-84b'
    (References.bib): Invalid format '1883--1884' of date field 'date' -
    ignoring."

    And indeed, in the output the brackets that should contain the date are
    empty ().

    How can I get the correct citation? After all, this volume does cover
    two years. (Interestingly, the roman figure in the number field is
    handled correctly.)

    Thanks in advance
    Engelbert

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  • From Julian Bradfield@21:1/5 to Dr Engelbert Buxbaum on Sun Apr 21 09:26:11 2024
    On 2024-04-21, Dr Engelbert Buxbaum <engelbert_buxbaum@hotmail.com> wrote:
    date = {1883--1884},

    A quick google suggests that date requires, um, a date.
    Try year .

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  • From Ulrike Fischer@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 21 15:19:36 2024
    Am Sun, 21 Apr 2024 09:26:11 +0000 (UTC) schrieb Julian Bradfield:

    On 2024-04-21, Dr Engelbert Buxbaum <engelbert_buxbaum@hotmail.com> wrote:
    date = {1883--1884},

    A quick google suggests that date requires, um, a date.
    Try year .

    And a quick search in the documentation (a underrated source of
    information today) suggests that date ranges can be input with
    slash: 1883/1884

    (in 2.3.8 Date and Time Specifications)


    --
    Ulrike Fischer
    http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/

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  • From Dr Engelbert Buxbaum@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 24 09:41:30 2024
    In article <slrnv29mtj.15ruv.jcb@high.jcbradfield.org>, jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk says...

    On 2024-04-21, Dr Engelbert Buxbaum <engelbert_buxbaum@hotmail.com> wrote:
    date = {1883--1884},

    A quick google suggests that date requires, um, a date.
    Try year .

    yes, it throws a warning about incorrect sorting (irrelevant as I use an numeric style), but does the right thing. Thanks.

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