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ronank
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OSCOLA BibLaTeX footnotes missing commas before pinpoints

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I have found what I think is a bug in either BibLaTeX or the OSCOLA style. When pinpoint citing a journal article (and perhaps other types of sources) after citing a book chapter, the footnote for the journal article does not have a comma separating the article start page from the pinpoint page.

This is a MWE:

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\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{book}
 
\usepackage[style=british]{csquotes}

\usepackage[style=oscola,	 citereset=chapter,	ibidtracker=true,          
   backend=biber,        babel=hyphen]{biblatex}
 \addbibresource{test.bib} 
\title{Test Document}
\begin{document}
 
 
 This is a reference to a book chapter.\autocite[]{Chapter}
 
This is a reference to a journal article, which should have a comma before the second page reference.\autocite[116]{Article}   
 
\end{document}
And the required bibliography file:

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@Incollection{Chapter,
author = {Author, Chapter}, 
title = {Book Chapter}, 
booktitle = {Edited Collection}, 
editor = {Editor,Book}, 
publisher = {Publisher}, 
address = {}, 
pages = {}, 
year = {2014}, 
edition = {},
}

@Article{Article,
author = {Author, Article}, 
title = {Journal Article}, 
journal = {Academic Journal}, 
volume = {30}, 
number = {1}, 
pages = {114}, 
year = {2014}, 
location = {}
}

This is what the output looks like:
test.png
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The second citation should read "114, 116" but (at least on my system), it reads "114 116". The comma is missing. How can I restore it?

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ronank
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Joined: Sat Jul 24, 2010 8:00 pm

Re: OSCOLA BibLaTeX footnotes missing commas before pinpoint

Post by ronank »

Deleting manually installed versions of the OSCOLA files from ~/Library/texmf seems to have sorted this out. LaTeX now picks up more recent versions which are included in more recent distributions. (I also updated to TeX Live 2014.)
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