Marulou Hinchclitff said:
>ISBD also requires that each NOTE be preceded by space full stop space dash=
> space or start a new paragraph for each.
On printed cards, each note did start a new paragraph. RDA has not
one mumblin' word about display. But if a new paragraph were not to
be started with each note, it would be the function of the ILS, not
the cataloguer, to put in those dashes.
In notes generated by 246 are to have periods, shouldn't 246? The
740s they replaced had periods.
The simplest solution for end punctuation would be to have a mark of
final punctuation (period, hyphen, curve) at the end of each 1XX-8XX
field, thus the only time "cm" would lack a period is if followed by
+$e accompanying material.
The period/no period at 300, and possible double period at 250, are
particularly ridiculous in view of the few ISBD displays in current
OPACS. Most OPACs have labels, taking up too much screen space from
bibliographic data.
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