Non-normalised browse displays in OPAC

["Graeme Leng-Ward" <G dot Leng-Ward at warwick dot ac dot uk>]

How do you set up opac to display non-normalised title, author and subject headings for browse searches?

Warning: Do not proceed any further unless you are passionately interested in browse displays.

Most III opacs seem to be set to display normalised title, author and subject headings for browse searches. All words capitalised, no punctuation, no spacing mark between subject terms. eg.
Acta Crystallographica. Section A, Foundations Of Crystallography
Mitchell Adrian 1932 
Rare Animals Europe 

However a small percentage are set up with non-normalised displays which are much more patron friendly. That is the heading display comes from the bib record field rather than the normalised index entries. eg.
Acta crystallographica. Section A, Foundations of crystallography
Mitchell, Adrian, 1932-
Rare animals -- Europe

When we implemented Millennium in 2003 we set OPAC option'03 Browse list: show field instead of normalized entry. For indexes: acdehmt 
-now this did in fact give us non-normalised headings for our title, author amd subject browse searches. However we could not display subfields n and p in our title browse despite having BROWSE_t=245/abnp/z set in wwwoptions. ie.
Acta Crystallographica
(without showing subfield n 'Section A,' and subfield p 'Foundations of Crystallography')

On asking the Helpdesk why we could not see subfields n and p, they said we should not have 'atd' as part of our 'OPAC option'03 Browse list' parameters. So 'atd' were removed.

This has given us the n and p subfields in our title browse but has caused the display for title, author and subject browses to revert back to normalised headings which we do not like. 

The helpdesk seem unable to tell us how to have both a non-normalised heading display and to have n and p subfields displaying (call open for over a year now). And yet I can give them examples of library opacs that are displaying as we would like. eg. Leeds University, Wellcome Library, Ohio State, George Fox University.

Can anyone who has grappled with these same issues shed any light.

Regards,
Graeme


Graeme Leng-Ward
Data Services
University of Warwick Library
Coventry, U.K.
Tel: (024) 76 528138
Email: g dot leng-ward at warwick dot ac dot uk