From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: index "compress" option / collapsing of page numbers
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 11:41:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA0595F3-6D9B-4609-996B-311DAAA158CE@uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A1D0EA09-527D-42CB-AB1C-C45566DC5831@fiee.net>
> On 3. Apr 2019, at 10:56, Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> wrote:
>
> Thank you – it’s not only a German habit, even if we pronounce it “folgende”, “f.” stems from Latin “folio”, and “ff.” is a duplicated abbreviation, as was usual in mediaeval Latin.
> So, this is at least used in English, German, Norwegian and Swedish, as far as I could find. In French they seem to use “sq.” and “sqq.” (sequens).
I’m not sure the abbreviation for “folio” has anything to do with our German “folgende”; if you have a link for this, I would like to know. And for the record: “ff.” for page ranges is now discouraged in most scholarly publications; journals and publishers now say f. for x - x+1, or exact page numbers.
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-03 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-02 9:54 Henning Hraban Ramm
2019-04-02 16:53 ` Hans Hagen
2019-04-03 8:56 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2019-04-03 9:25 ` Ulrike Fischer
2019-04-03 9:41 ` Thomas A. Schmitz [this message]
2019-04-03 9:50 ` Herbert Voss
2019-04-03 11:30 ` Hans Hagen
2019-04-03 12:54 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
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