Adding white space arround pages tag in biblatex

Question

I'd like to know if it is possible to add white spaces around the dash sign in page range in bibliography list.

That's what I have:

S. 1234-1235

That's what I want to have:

S. 1234 - 1235

In my bib-file the pages tag includes white spaces:

pages = {1234 -- 1235}

That is my minimal bib file:

@article{IJAMT,
         author        = {Author},
         title         = {Title},
         journaltitle  = {Journal},
         year          = {2016},
         volume        = {69},
         number        = {9 -- 12},
         pages         = {2315 -- 2321},
         label         = {REF}

And here is my minimal example:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,oneside,ngerman]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[style=alphabetic,bibencoding=utf8,hyperref=true,sorting=anyt,    natbib=true, backend=biber]{biblatex}

% Own Style for Articles
\DeclareBibliographyDriver{article}{%
  \printnames{author}:\newunit%
  \printfield{title}.\newunit%
  \printfield{journaltitle}{ }\printfield{volume}{ }%
  (\printfield{year}){ }\printfield{number},\newunit%
  \printfield{pages}%
  \finentry}

\bibliography{literature/bib}

\begin{document}
  \cite{IJAMT}
  \newpage
  \printbibliography
\end{document}

Welcome to TeX.SE. To give a correct answer without a complete MWE is difficult. I guess, you could enter the page range in your BibTeX-file as 1234~-~1235 although I am convinced, that it is typographically incorrect. — Jan, Dec 23 '16 at 10:23
Please give us more details and save us from having to type everything on our own. — Jan, Dec 23 '16 at 10:29
jan is asking about an MWE/MWEB.That is the easiest and most efficient way to tell us how exactly you create your bibliography - a solution will most likely depend on the packages and styles you use. — moewe, Dec 23 '16 at 10:42
Do you use biblatex as your tagging suggests or BibTeX as the title suggests? — moewe, Dec 23 '16 at 10:47
Note that your redefinition of the @article driver is a bit rough. You should never have a literal : or ( in the driver definition. — moewe, Dec 23 '16 at 11:01
I have edited my answer to include an alternative to your redefinition of the @article driver. — moewe, Dec 23 '16 at 14:01

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

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We just need to redefine \bibrangedash to add the space

\DefineBibliographyExtras{english}{%
  \renewrobustcmd*{\bibrangedash}{\addspace\textendash\space}}

Since \bibrangedash is a language-specific command, we need to redefine it within \DefineBibliographyExtras{<lang>} where <lang> is your document language.

Instead of \addspace\textendash\space you could also use thin spaces and prevent a line break before the dash by using

\addnbthinspace\textendash\penalty\hyphenpenalty\addthinspace

instead.

BTW: You instead of redefining your @article driver in the way you did, you could use

\renewcommand*{\labelnamepunct}{\addcolon\space}

\renewbibmacro*{journal+issuetitle}{%
  \usebibmacro{journal}%
  \setunit*{\addspace}%
  \iffieldundef{series}
    {}
    {\newunit
     \printfield{series}%
     \setunit{\addspace}}%
  \printfield{volume}%
  \setunit{\addspace}%
  \usebibmacro{issue+date}%
  \setunit{\addspace}%
  \printfield{number}%
  \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
  \printfield{eid}
  \setunit{\addcolon\space}%
  \usebibmacro{issue}%
  \newunit}

to achieve a similar thing. Plus maybe Suppress “In:” biblatex. You should not have literal punctuation in your driver, always use \setunit and friends together with \addcomma and friends or put the formatting into \DeclareFieldFormat.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

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answered Dec 23 '16 at 10:54

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Doesn't this add feasible break points before and after the dash? – egreg Dec 23 '16 at 10:58
@egreg So it does. Do you think that is undesirable? Would you prefer \renewrobustcmd*{\bibrangedash}{\addnbspace\textendash\addnbspace}? – moewe Dec 23 '16 at 11:00
If a space must be, I'd prefer it thinner and not flexible; breaking before the dash is obviously not a choice, after it might help in tough situation. – egreg Dec 23 '16 at 11:28
What is the main advantage using \renewbibmacro*{journal+issuetitle} instead redefining @article ? – Micha Jan 06 '17 at 06:29
@Micha The standard @article driver contains many things that can be controlled via options, your redefinition kills almost all or these options and uses some other crude techniques such as hard-coded punctuation. For what you want it is only necessary to redefine journal+issuetitle (this macro is used in the driver for @article) since that is the only part of the article driver that needs to be changed. – moewe Jan 06 '17 at 14:30

Adding white space arround pages tag in biblatex

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