[Koha] Punctuation in personal names

Alejo Janin alejojanin at gmail.com
Tue Sep 5 00:31:41 NZST 2023


Hi,

You should remove the <xsl:call-template name="chopPunctuation"> for those
subfields from the xslt templates.

El lun, 4 sept 2023 a la(s) 09:22, Bruns, Anke (Anke.Bruns at gwdg.de)
escribió:

> Hi Himanshu,
>
> thanks for the quick reply.
>
> However, this wouldn't solve the specific problem we encountered, as the
> dot is already present in the MARC data and is only suppressed in the
> display.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Anke
>
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Himanshu Aggarwal <rtr.himanshu at gmail.com>
> > Gesendet: Montag, 4. September 2023 13:16
> > An: Bruns, Anke <Anke.Bruns at gwdg.de>
> > Cc: koha <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> > Betreff: Re: [Koha] Punctuation in personal names
> >
> > I do the editing manually with every data imported using z39.50
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 4:25 PM Bruns, Anke <Anke.Bruns at gwdg.de
> > <mailto:Anke.Bruns at gwdg.de> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >       Hi everybody,
> >
> >       a library pointed me to a problem with the display of abbreviated
> > personal
> >       first names in 100 and 700 (and possibly others). The final dot in
> > these
> >       fields is chopped in the results' list and detailed record view
> (OPAC
> > and
> >       Staff Interface).
> >
> >       Thus, a name like Kuthy, A. reads Kuthy, A and Riemann, K.-U.
> > becomes
> >       Riemann, K.-U and Lau, Y.Y. appears as Lau, Y.Y
> >
> >       (I omitted the full stop in the previous sentence to avoid
> confusion.)
> >
> >       Whereas it probably makes sense to chop the final punctuation in
> > some cases
> >       in the display of personal names fields, the dot should be
> displayed
> > for
> >       abbreviated first names.
> >
> >       Have you a hint for me how best to make these dots visible in the
> > results'
> >       list and record view?
> >
> >       Should we add a CSS directive in OPACUserCSS and StaffUserCSS?
> >       Or better add/change the passages for the relevant fields in the
> xsl
> > files?
> >       Or something else?
> >
> >       Thanks in advance!
> >
> >       Regards,
> >       Anke
> >
> >
> >
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