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

[Chris Cormack]

2011/10/11 <Library at boystown.com.au>
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> Hi All,
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Hi Mandy

> I have heaps of questions but I will reign back my enthusiasm and put one question per email.
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> 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.
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> eg.        BUL
>         FUL
>         2011
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> 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.
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> Thanks heaps,
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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

Chris