[DCRM-L] Signing statement in Connexion pt. 2

[Noble, Richard]

Huh ... I produce these all the time, and I've never had any trouble with
'$' in Connexion. I assume you just keyed it directly into the record in
the usual way, shift-4; but did you cut and paste from some sort of working
document?

There are indeed no italics in Connexion; I usually state totals as e.g.
'[32 unnumbered]': a bit cumbersome, but unambiguous. FWIW, I give the
formats as folio, 4to, 8vo, 12mo etc. You never know what mischief that
degree sign might get up to...

If this anomaly persists, a query to OCLC might be in order.

Richard

RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
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On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Mark Seidl <marseidl at vassar.edu> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> At Richard Noble's request I'm posting my query again with the collation
> I'm trying to get through OCLC.
>
> I am attempting to include a full collation in a 500 field of an original
> record. The signing statement begins with $4 for four leaves signed.
> However, OCLC Connextion reads this as a subfield 4 and refuses to validate
> the record.
>
> Here's the collation:
>
> 8°: ã⁸ ẽ⁸ A-2V⁸ 2X⁴ [ $4 (-ã1,2X3,4) signed]; 364 leaves, pp. [32]
> 1-680 [16] [misnumbering 183 as 189, 186-7 as 192-3, 190 as 196, 191 as
> 193, 371 as 571, 634 as 934, 680 as 580]
>
> BTW, Connexion also doesn't allow--or I can't find the function--for
> italicized characters, so the bracketed numbers in the pagination statement
> which should be italicized aren't. I hope that context in this case
> indicates that these are total numbers of unnumbered pages, rather than
> inferred page numbers.
>
> Has anyone encountered this problem and, if so, found a way to finesse the
> code/symbol issue?
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> --
>
> Mark Seidl
> Technical Services Librarian for Special Collections
> Vassar College Libraries
> http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/
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>
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