[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Cataloguing Module Help Question - Forgot some detail

[Harbottle, Joel R]

Hi Jason,

Thank you for your kind help with my questions.

Kindest Regards,
Joel



Joel Harbottle
Email: joel.r.harbottle at gmail.com

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Jason Etheridge <jason at esilibrary.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Harbottle, Joel R
> <joel.r.harbottle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Q1. Is there a way I can directly insert diacritics/symbols (e.g. the
> pound
> > symbol) into fields in catalogue records without having to copy and paste
> > the diacritic/symbols from Microsoft Office Word?
>
> Hi Joel,
>
> This seems like a good overview: http://www.starr.net/is/type/kbh.html
>
> If I enable the language bar in Windows and choose the International
> Keyboard as default, I can enter characters like á©ðéíøµñóöä®ßþúåüæ
> just by holding down the right+alt key as I type.  Á¢ÐÉÍØÇÓÓħÞÚÅÜÆ
> with right+alt and right+shift.  Non-romanized languages are also
> possible.
>
> > Q2. Is there anyway possible in Evergreen to modify the MARC fields and
> > subfields in System Administration so we can add our own custom tags,
> etc,
> > like we had in our legacy system.
>
> You can create MARC templates, but there is no GUI for this.  Letting
> the system know which subfields and indicators are available for your
> custom tags (for context menus in the MARC editor) is more difficult,
> but also doable.  Creating or augmenting indexes to use your custom
> fields is also possible, though there is no GUI for it yet.  Let us
> know what you're looking for exactly and we can dig up some
> documentation or describe the process.
>
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