[Koha] the first of my non tech questions - probably requiring a technical answer!

[Chris Nighswonger]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz>wrote:

> 2011/10/11 <Library at boystown.com.au>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> Hi Mandy
>
> > I have heaps of questions but I will reign back my enthusiasm and put one
> question per email.
> >
> > I have version to 3.02.06.  I would like to use the label creator to
> create batches of spine labels.  It works fine but pulls call number  from
> the itemcallnumber field and doesn't format it.  The text sits on the label
> in one line - eg. BUL FUL 2011 - too wide for book spines and too small and
> difficult to read if I reduce the font size and stick it on the book spine
> sideways.  I would like to break the call number up into three lines so the
> three elements of the call number can be read from top to bottom.
> >
> > eg.        BUL
> >         FUL
> >         2011
> >
> > Our collection was totally lost in the January floods and I'm looking to
> replace the collection in the next few months.  Getting this feature working
> right would be a big time saver.  Currently I'm manually typing in the call
> numbers.
> >
> > Thanks heaps,
> >
>
> There is no way to do that in Koha 3.2.6 without editing some code I
> am afraid. One option is to look into using KBarcode
> http://www.kbarcode.net/ and using the reports tool to export the data
> to load into it.
>
> Or maybe someone smarter than me can think of a way to do it within Koha
>
>
Actually, there is no good reason that number should not split correctly as
there is a splitting algorithm to handle splitting non-standard call numbers
based on spaces [1]. Alternately, you can add a comment to bug 2500[2]
including an example of the desired call number both unsplit and split with
the hopes that someone will add an algorithm for it.

[1]
http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=koha.git;a=blob;f=C4/Labels/Label.pm;h=930e0f6ef407134c4046eb3156e641a23eb255d4;hb=15d9cc7213686709761528cba4ba63eac896e0db#l159

[2] http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2500

Kind Regards,
Chris
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