On 9/5/06, Neil Harris neil@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
That's a great idea. It might also be useful to make the code also switch 'AD' and 'CE', for dates such as, for example, 4 AD / 4 CE.
I didn't think anybody actually used AD or CE in articles, but I see now on the Manual of Style page that it reads:
Normally you should use plain numbers for years in the Anno
Domini/Common Era,
but when events span the start of the Anno Domini/Common Era, use
AD or CE for
the date at the end of the range (note that AD precedes the date
and CE follows it).
For example, [[1 BC]]–[[1|AD 1]] or [[1 BCE]]–[[1|1 CE]].
There doesn't seem to be any code to handle this currently for AD, which is why it didn't occur to me right off the bat. You're right though, and it should be included. I'm busy over the next few days but I can add this into the patch sometime this week (along with whatever other changes people suggest).
-Bill