On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Chris Cormack <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2011/10/11 <[email protected]> > > > > 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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