Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 59398
For English "p."/"pp." in index entries should be "f."/"ff."
Last modified: 2017-06-25 10:01:03 UTC
By default in OOo, an index entry covering a range of pages M to N is represented by MX where X is a string specified by the locale <FollowPageWord> element; there are two such strings, one for the case where the N - M = 1 and one where N - M > 1. In other words, these two strings are abbreviations for "and the following page" and "and the following pages". In German, these two strings are "f." and "ff." In English, the locale file specifies these two strings as "p." and "pp.". This is incorrect. "p." and "pp." are the abbreviations for "page" and "pages". The correct abbreviations in English for "and the following page"/"and the following pages" are "f."/"ff." (as in German). This confusion perhaps arose because "p."/"pp." are often used together with ".f"/"ff.". For example, in running text, you might say "See pp.121ff for more information". However, in English "p."/"pp." never occurs in an index and always occurs before the page number. The documentation for com.sun.star.i18n.XIndexEntrySupplier.getIndexFollowPageWord() also needs changing.
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Issue confirmed. As the OP has explained, there has been a misunderstanding over the use of the terms p./pp. and f./ff. Do a search on the internet using the terms "pp." or "p." and "abbreviation": these terms occur BEFORE a number, or range of numbers, and NOT after a page number in a book index. The correct terms f. and ff. need to be substituted asap.