[Koha] Slash (/) following title

[clint.deckard]

Jerwyn, Owen and James,
Thank you for your valuable input. I now have a path to explore and 
learn- XSLT stylesheets.

When I first came across the / and saw it in the OPAC I assumed it was 
an error with my migration. However it was in the original records and 
that lead me to explore its history and usage.
The / might assist readability in a card catalogue but in the OPAC I 
suspect it hinders, simply because it is 'jarring'. Cognitive dissonance 
and such...

Recently a librarian asked that it be removed.

Interestingly, one service provider includes the / and another does not.

Thanks again,
Clint.


James Weinheimer wrote:
> On 12/08/2015 14.19, Owen Leonard wrote:
>> It may be standard, and it may be correct as far as cataloging is
>> concerned, but that doesn't mean it necessarily looks right to the
>> general public using the catalog.
> 
> As happens so often, when you take something out of its "native habitat" 
> it can look strange. In the older (obsolete?) ISBD display the slash and 
> other punctuation are OK. E.g.
> 
> Transports : travel, pleasure, and imaginative geography, 1600-1830 / 
> edited by Chloe Chard and Helen Langdon. - viii, 341 pages : 
> illustrations ; 26 cm.
> 
> I never met anyone who was bothered by the punctuation or even noticed 
> any of it.
> 
> But, when you "change the environment" you see:
> 
> Transports : travel, pleasure, and imaginative geography, 1600-1830 /
> by Chard, Chloe; Langdon, Helen.
> 
> the hanging slash is a punch in the face, although probably nobody would 
> really care about the : (colon) between the title-subtitle. But if the 
> display was:
> 
> Transports :
> travel, pleasure, and imaginative geography, 1600-1830 /
> by Chard, Chloe; Langdon, Helen.
> 
> people would notice the hanging : and think that was weird too.
> 
> The Belgian painter Rene Magritte was really good at taking normal, 
> everyday things and putting them in strange situations, so that they 
> become weird.
> http://www.mattesonart.com/Data/Sites/1/magritte/Hegel's%20Holiday.jpg
> or
> http://www.renemagritte.org/images/paintings/personal-values.jpg
> 
> The punctuation is similar. When not in an ISBD display, it should 
> probably be removed.
> 
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