Dictionary marks in biblatex for indicating in the header the first and the last reference for each bibliography page
This is difficult to do automatically. Getting the correct 'last' mark on the page is frustratingly difficult. The package extramarks can get you close (given your example file):
\usepackage{extramarks}
\AtEveryBibitem{%
\markboth{\thefield{labelalpha}}{\thefield{labelalpha}}%
\extramarks{\thefield{labelalpha}}{\thefield{labelalpha}}% <-- an improvement
}
\newcommand{\dictionarymark}{%
% is the test necessary? when will \leftmark and \rightmark be equal..?
\ifdefequal{\leftmark}{\rightmark}{\rightmark}{\firstrightxmark\ -- \lastrightxmark}}
\makepagestyle{dict}
\makeevenhead{dict}{Bibliography}{}{\dictionarymark}
\makeoddhead{dict}{\dictionarymark}{}{Bibliography}
\pagestyle{dict}
The use of the extramarks helps, but syncing things up with the way pages are broken is difficult...
This is greatly indebted to jon's answer.
Here's the result:
I hope that is what was expected. The code uses two things from the extramarks package which I wasn't even aware of before reading jon's answer. In particular it uses \topxmark which the documentation notes 'probably is not of much use'.
In addition, it uses a new command \newmark to store the previous value of the bibitem label. It then uses this to set one of the marks for the next bibitem. This is almost enough. The only label it now gets wrong is the label for the last bibitem on the very last page. (jon's answer got this right.) There may be a neater way of doing this but, in the end, I tested to see if I was on the last page. Note that this will need to be adjusted if the final page of the bibliography does not get the label LastPage from the lastpage package. I'm really bad with numbers in TeX so the way I finally found to test the numbers, which uses refcount, is probably not that great either.
Anyway, no doubt something better can be devised but this seems to work for at least the MWE in the question:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[sorting=nyt,style=ieee-alphabetic,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@inbook{IEEEexample:incollectionwithseries,
author = "J. B. Anderson and K. Tepe",
title = "Properties of the Tailbiting {BCJR} Decoder",
booktitle = "Codes, Systems and Graphical Models",
series = "{IMA} Volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
location = "New York",
year = "2000"
}
@book{IEEEexample:inbookpagesnote,
author = "B. K. Bul",
title = "Theory Principles and Design of Magnetic Circuits",
publisher = "Energia Press",
loction = "Moscow",
year = "1964",
pages = "464",
note = "(in Russian)"
}
@book{IEEEexample:bookwitheditor,
editor = "J. C. Candy and G. C. Temes",
title = "Oversampling Delta-Sigma Data Converters Theory,
Design and Simulation",
publisher = "{IEEE} Press.",
location = "New York",
year = "1992"
}
@article{IEEEexample:articlelargepages,
author = "A. Castaldini and A. Cavallini and B. Fraboni
and P. Fernandez and J. Piqueras",
title = "Midgap Traps Related to Compensation Processes in
{CdTe} Alloys",
journaltitle = "Phys. Rev. B.",
volume = "56",
number = "23",
year = "1997",
pages = "14897-14900"
}
@article{IEEEexample:TBPmisc,
author = "M. Coates and A. Hero and R. Nowak and B. Yu",
title = "Internet Tomography",
journaltitle = "IEEE J. Selected Areas Commun.",
month = 05,
year = "2002",
note = "to be published"
}
@book{IEEEexample:book_typical,
author = "B. D. Cullity",
title = "Introduction to Magnetic Materials",
publisher = "Addison--Wesley",
location = "Reading, MA",
year = "1972"
}
@inbook{IEEEexample:incollectionmanyauthors,
author = "R. M. A. Dawson and Z. Shen and D. A. Furst and
S. Connor and J. Hsu and M. G. Kane and R. G. Stewart and
A. Ipri and C. N. King and P. J. Green and R. T. Flegal
and S. Pearson and W. A. Barrow and E. Dickey and K. Ping
and C. W. Tang and S. Van. Slyke and
F. Chen and J. Shi and J. C. Sturm and M. H. Lu",
title = "Design of an Improved Pixel for a Polysilicon
Active-Matrix Organic {LED} Display",
booktitle = "{SID} Tech. Dig.",
volume = "29",
year = "1998",
pages = "11-14"
}
@inproceedings{IEEEexample:presentedatconf,
author = "S. G. Finn and M. M{\'e}dard and R. A. Barry",
title = "A Novel Approach to Automatic Protection Switching
Using Trees",
eventtitle = "{IEEE} International Conference on Communications",
location = "Montreal, Que., Canada",
year = "1997"
}
@manual{IEEEexample:motmanual,
title = "{FLEXChip} Signal Processor ({MC68175/D})",
organization = "Motorola",
year = "1996"
}
@inbook{IEEEexample:incollection_chpp,
author = "P. Hedelin and P. Knagenhjelm and M. Skoglund",
editor = "W. B. Kleijn and K. K. Paliwal",
title = "Theory for Transmission of Vector Quantization Data",
booktitle = "Speech Coding and Synthesis",
publisher = "Elsevier Science",
location = "Amsterdam, The Netherlands",
year = "1995",
chapter = "10",
pages = "347-396"
}
@patent{IEEEexample:jppat,
author = "U. Hideki",
title = "Quadrature Modulation Circuit",
type = "patentjp",
number = "152932/92",
year = "1992-05-20"
}
@periodical{IEEEexample:periodical,
title = "IEEE Personal Commun. Mag., Special Issue on
Wireless {ATM}",
volume = "3",
year = "1996-08",
}
@misc{IEEEexample:standard,
title = "Wireless {LAN} Medium Access Control {(MAC)} and
Physical Layer {(PHY)} Specification",
howpublished = "{IEEE} Std. 802.11",
year = "1997"
}
@online{IEEEexample:electronhowinfo,
author = "V. Jacobson",
title = "Modified {TCP} Congestion Avoidance Algorithm",
howpublished = "end2end-interest mailing list",
url = "ftp://ftp.isi.edu/end2end/end2end-interest-1990.mail",
year = "1990-04"
}
@report{IEEEexample:techrep,
author = "R. Jain and K. K. Ramakrishnan and D. M. Chiu",
title = "Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks with a
Connectionless Network Layer",
institution = "Digital Equipment Corporation",
location = "MA",
number = "DEC-TR-506",
year = "1987-08",
type = "techreport"
}
@article{IEEEexample:TBParticle,
author = "N. Kahale and R. Urbanke",
title = "On the Minimum Distance of Parallel and Serially
Concatenated Codes",
journaltitle = "IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory",
note = "submitted for publication"
}
@report{IEEEexample:techrepstdsub,
author = "S. Kandala",
title = "Changes to {A}nnex {D}",
institution = "{IEEE} 802.11 {TGe}",
number = "02/680r0",
year = "2002-10",
type = "techreport"
}
@thesis{IEEEexample:masterstype,
author = "A. Karnik",
title = "Performance of {TCP} Congestion Control with Rate
Feedback: {TCP/ABR} and Rate Adaptive {TCP/IP}",
institution = "Indian Institute of Science",
type = "M. Eng. thesis",
location = "Bangalore, India",
year = "1999-01"
}
@patent{IEEEexample:frenchpatreq,
author = "F. Kowalik and M. Isard",
title = "Estimateur d'un D{\'e}faut de Fonctionnement
d'un Modulateur en Quadrature et {\'E}tage de Modulation
l'Utilisant",
language = "french",
type = "French Patent Request",
number = "9500261",
year = "1995-01-11"
}
@thesis{IEEEexample:phdurl,
author = "Q. Li",
title = "Delay Characterization and Performance Control of
Wide-area Networks",
institution = "Univ. of Delaware",
location = "Newark, NJ",
type = "phdthesis",
year = "2000-05",
url = "http://www.ece.udel.edu/~qli"
}
@thesis{IEEEexample:masters,
author = "Nin C. Loh",
title = "High-Resolution Micromachined Interferometric
Accelerometer",
institution = "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
location = "Cambridge, MA",
type = "mathesis",
year = "1992"
}
@online{IEEEexample:electronorgadd,
author = "D. H. Lorenz and A. Orda",
title = "Optimal Partition of {QoS} Requirements on Unicast
Paths and Multicast Trees",
institution = "Dept. Elect. Eng., Technion",
location = "Haifa, Israel",
url = "ftp://ftp.technion.ac.il/pub/supported/ee/Network/lor.mopq98.ps",
year = "1998-07"
}
@book{IEEEexample:book,
author = "S. M. Metev and V. P. Veiko",
editor = "Osgood, Jr., R. M.",
title = "Laser Assisted Microtechnology",
edition = "2",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
location = "Berlin, Germany",
year = "1998"
}
@report{IEEEexample:techreptypeii,
author = "D. Middleton and A. D. Spaulding",
title = "A Tutorial Review of Elements of Weak Signal Detection
in Non-{G}aussian {EMI} Environments",
institution = "National Telecommunications and Information
Administration ({NTIA}), U.S. Dept. of Commerce",
type = "NTIA Report",
number = "86-194",
year = "1986-05"
}
@inproceedings{IEEEexample:confwithpapertype,
author = "B. Mikkelsen and G. Raybon and R.-J. Essiambre and
K. Dreyer and Y. Su. and L. E. Nelson and J. E. Johnson
and G. Shtengel and A. Bond and D. G. Moodie and
A. D. Ellis",
title = "160 {Gbit/s} Single-channel Transmission Over 300 km
Nonzero-dispersion Fiber With Semiconductor Based
Transmitter and Demultiplexer",
booktitle = "Proc. {ECOC}'99",
location = "Nice, France",
year = "1999",
pages = "28-29"
}
@article{IEEEexample:articledualmonths,
author = "Y. Okada and K. Dejima and T. Ohishi",
title = "Analysis and Comparison of {PM} Synchronous Motor and
Induction Motor Type Magnetic Bearings",
journaltitle = "IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl.",
volume = "31",
year = "1995-09/1995-10",
pages = "1047-1053"
}
@unpublished{IEEEexample:unpublished,
author = "T. J. Ott and N. Aggarwal",
title = "{TCP} over {ATM}: {ABR} or {UBR}",
howpublished = "Unpublished"
}
@report{IEEEexample:techreptype,
author = "J. Padhye and V. Firoiu and D. Towsley",
title = "A Stochastic Model of {TCP} {R}eno Congestion Avoidance
and Control",
institution = "Univ. of Massachusetts",
location = "Amherst, MA",
type = "CMPSCI Tech. Rep.",
number = "99-02",
year = "1999",
}
@book{IEEEexample:inbook,
author = "H. E. Rose",
title = "A Course in Number Theory",
publisher = "Oxford Univ. Press",
location = "New York",
year = "1988",
chapter = "3"
}
@patent{IEEEexample:uspat,
author = "Ronald E. Sorace and Victor S. Reinhardt and
Steven A. Vaughn",
holder = "Hughes Aircraft Company",
location = "Los Angeles, CA",
title = "High-Speed Digital-to-{RF} Converter",
type = "patentus",
number = "5668842",
yearfiled = "1995-02-28",
year = "1997-09-16",
}
@inbook{IEEEexample:incollection,
author = "W. V. Sorin",
editor = "D. Derickson",
title = "Optical Reflectometry for Component Characterization",
booktitle = "Fiber Optic Test and Measurement",
publisher = "Prentice--Hall",
location = "Englewood Cliffs, NJ",
year = "1998"
}
@online{IEEEexample:electronhowinfo2,
author = "V. Valloppillil and K. W. Ross",
title = "Cache Array Routing Protocol v1.1",
howpublished = "Internet draft",
url = "http://ds1.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-vinod-carp-v1-03.txt",
year = "1998"
}
@inproceedings{IEEEexample:confwithpaper,
author = "M. Wegmuller and J. P. von der Weid and P. Oberson
and N. Gisin",
title = "High Resolution Fiber Distributed Measurements With
Coherent {OFDR}",
booktitle = "Proc. {ECOC}'00",
year = "2000",
location = "Munich, Germany",
pages = "109"
}
@inproceedings{IEEEexample:confwithvolume,
author = "M. Yajnik and S. B. Moon and J. Kurose and D. Towsley",
title = "Measurement and Modeling of the Temporal Dependence in
Packet Loss",
booktitle = "Proc. {IEEE} {INFOCOM}'99",
volume = "1",
location = "New York",
year = "1999-03",
pages = "345-352"
}
@inproceedings{IEEEexample:confwithadddays,
author = "M. S. Yee and L. Hanzo",
title = "Radial Basis Function Decision Feedback Equaliser
Assisted Burst-by-burst Adaptive Modulation",
booktitle = "Proc. {IEEE} Globecom '99",
address = "Rio de Janeiro, Brazil",
year = "1999-12-05/1999-12-09",
pages = "2183-2187"
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\nocite{*}
\clearplainmark{bib}
\usepackage{extramarks,lastpage,refcount}
\setrefcountdefault{-1}
\newcommand*{\newlastright}{\relax}
\def\newmark{\relax}
\AtEveryBibitem{%
\markboth{\thefield{labelalpha}}{\thefield{labelalpha}}%
\extramarks{\thefield{labelalpha}}{\newmark}% <-- an improvement
\xdef\newmark{\thefield{labelalpha}}%
}
\newcommand{\dictionarymark}{%
% is the test necessary? when will \leftmark and \rightmark be equal..?
\ifdefequal{\leftmark}{\rightmark}{\rightmark}{%
\ifnum \value{page} = \getpagerefnumber{LastPage}
\topxmark\ -- \newmark
\else
\topxmark\ -- \lastrightxmark
\fi}}
\makeevenhead{ruled}{\scshape Bibliography}{}{\dictionarymark}
\makeoddhead{ruled}{\dictionarymark}{}{\scshape Bibliography}
\pagestyle{ruled}
\begin{document}
\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]
\end{document}