Dear Marlene, What wonderful news! Diacritics in my labels drive me nuts. This will be a huge help.
Hag Same'ah, Jackie On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 1:43 PM Marlene Schiffman via Hasafran < hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > Hi colleagues! > > Walt Nickeson, of programming fame, has created a macro at our request to > remove diacritics from authors and titles that appear on OCLC labels. It > was in response to a problem that we were having wherein the diacritics > didn’t display properly, usually not connected to the letter they were > supposed to join with, and sometimes they produced odd symbols, like a 3 in > the middle of the word. We had been removing the diacritics just before > printing (not affecting the master record at all) manually. Walt created a > macro for us which removes the diacritics at the touch of a button. Would > you be interested in such a macro (I can share it) or do you think he > should put it in his macro book to become generally available? It removes > diacritics from any language. We use it principally for Hebrew titles, but > it works on Spanish, French, etc. too. > > > > חג שמח > > > > MRS > > > > > > Marlene Schiffman > > Judaica Cataloger > > Gottesman Library > > Yeshiva University > > 500 West 185th Street > > New York, N.Y. 10033 > > > > Gottesman Library > > Room 301 > > 646 592 4276 > > > __ > Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual > author > and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries > (AJL) > ================================== > Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: > hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu > To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu > Ha-Safran Archives: > Current: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > Earlier Listserver: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org > -- > Hasafran mailing list > Hasafran@lists.osu.edu > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > -- Jackie Ben-Efraim *"Although the books had changed, I the reader had not." **Micha Yosef Berdichevsky 1865-1921* Special Collections Librarian Ostrow Library American Jewish University 15600 Mulholland Drive Los Angeles, CA 90077
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