\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{shortvrb}
\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage{paralist}
\usepackage[acceptempty,hyperlink]{pagerange}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{colorlinks=true,linkcolor=red,pdfpagemode=UseThumbs,
  implicit=true,breaklinks=true,citecolor=purple,pdfview=FitH,
  pdfstartview=FitH}
\begin{document}
\MakeShortVerb{\+}
\title{The {\tt pagerange} Package}
\author{Ahmed Musa\\[.5ex]University of Central Lancashire\\
  Preston, United Kingdom\\[1ex]\url{a.musa@rocketmail.com}
}
\maketitle

\section{Introduction}
This package emerged from my desire to resolve page ranges in the +draftmark+ package, but it may be useful to other \LaTeX{} enthusiasts.

There is additional user guide in the comments within the package.

\section{Examples}

\pagerange{123-456}
\par\medskip\noindent
Pages~\pagestart\space to\space\pageend

\pagerange{12345-67890}
\par\medskip\noindent
Pages~\pagestart\space to\space\pageend

\pagerange{123-4567}
\par\medskip\noindent
Pages~\pagestart\space to\space\pageend

\pagerange{600-601}
\par\medskip\noindent
Pages~\pagestart\space to\space\pageend

\pagerange{-34}
\par\medskip\noindent
Pages~\pagestart\space to\space\pageend

\bigskip\noindent
Hyperlinking of last page:
\pagerange{1-}
\par\medskip\noindent
Pages~\pagestart\space to\space\pageend

\pagerange{-}
\par\medskip\noindent
Pages~\pagestart\space to\space\pageend

\bigskip\noindent
No hyperlinking of last page:
\pagerangeoptions{hyperlink=false}
\pagerange{1-}
\par\medskip\noindent
Pages~\pagestart\space to\space\pageend

\pagerange{-}
\par\medskip\noindent
Pages~\pagestart\space to\space\pageend

\pagerange{123-234}
\par\medskip\noindent
Pages~\pagestart\space to\space\pageend

\pagerange{} % This logs a warning message or issues fatal error.
\par\medskip\noindent
Page~\pagestart\space to\space\pageend

%\pagerange{123-456-789} % Uncomment this line to get fatal error.

%\pagerange{34-12} % Uncomment this line to get fatal error.

\par\medskip

\pagerangeoptions{tie=*}
\pagerange{123*234}
\par\noindent
Pages~\pagestart\space to\space\pageend

\pagerangeoptions{tie=T}
\pagerange{1234T1235}
\par\medskip\noindent
Pages~\pagestart\space to\space\pageend

\pagerangeoptions{tie=X}
\pagerange{2034X2135}
\par\medskip\noindent
Pages~\pagestart\space to\space\pageend

\section{To-do}

\begin{compactenum}[a)]
\item To provide for calls such as in {\tt\string\pagerange\{\string\pageref\{page:label\}-200\}}.
\item Documentation.
\end{compactenum}

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\centerline{\rule{.5\hsize}{.4pt}}
\bigskip
\lipsum[1-4]

\end{document} 