Erin,<br><br>That is what I do. If I'm inserting a comma after "or" (or its equivalent) preceding an alternative title in the 245 field, I do the same in the 246 field. It's only the variant spelling that I worry about in the 246. I might make an exception locally to provide punctuation variants in 246 fields if I knew my system indexed certain marks of punctuation differently. I don't know of any system for which commas are a problem, but I've heard that sometimes other marks are problematic.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Erin Blake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:EBlake@folger.edu" target="_blank">EBlake@folger.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Does one use "common sense in deciding whether to include the punctuation, omit it, replace it, or add punctuation not present" in a 246 for how a title looks on the page? This came up in the close reading of DCRM(G).<br>
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Source: SER, SIVE SERICVS VERMIS<br>
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245: Ser, siue, Sericus vermis (comma added after Latin "or")<br>
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246: Ser, sive Sericus vermis (punctuation as given on the piece)<br>
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246: Ser, sive Sericvs vermis (punctuation as given on the piece)<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Erin.<br>
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