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.
>
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>
> חג שמח
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> MRS
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> Marlene Schiffman
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> Judaica Cataloger
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