[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex, French and pp.

biblatexfrench

I'm having a little problem with the settings of my bibliography. I think everyone is familiar with the difference between the number of pages, shortened "pp.", and the page referenced, shortened "p.".

Well, for some reasons, articles referenced in footnote (with \autocite) will properly write "pp." and "p." but other categories like "book" and "conference" won't. They display "p." for both fields.

I checked the french.lbx file of biblatex and it does say something like pages = {pp\adddot}. I tried overriding it with: 

\DefineBibliographyStrings{french}{%
pages = {pp\adddot},
}

in the preamble of my document but to no avail.

Any idea?

PS: I'm using: 

\usepackage[bibstyle=ieee,backref=false,hyperref=false,
     citestyle=verbose-note,firstinits=true]{biblatex}

Best Answer

Since french.lbx doesn't include pp\adddot anywhere, I suspect that the "pp." observed by you was caused by a bibliography entry featuring a hyphenation field with, say, english. And as henrique has stated, \DefineBibliographyStrings{french}{pages = {pp\adddot}} works indeed.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[english,french]{babel}

\usepackage[babel=other]{biblatex}

% \DefineBibliographyStrings{french}{pages = {pp\adddot}}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{A01,
  hyphenation = {french},
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
  pagetotal = {999},
}
@book{B02,
  hyphenation = {english},
  author = {Buthor, B.},
  year = {2002},
  title = {Bravo},
  pagetotal = {888},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\nocite{*}

\begin{document}

\printbibliography

\end{document}
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