RE: [IUG] Webpub.def question

[sjurist at ucsd dot edu]

> I'm getting a little confused by the terminology.  Is bibdisplay.html
> the webpacPro equivalent of webpub.def, or a separate file that
> interacts with it?

A separate file. You need both. webpub.def tells which fields & subfields
should be displayed or suppressed. You can also easily change labels -
we've done some very complex indicator specific labels & suppressing.

Think of bibdidplay.html as the briefcit.html for single records - there
you say what order things display in & what they look like

> Can someone who's' implemented webpac Pro after investing energy in
> label names through ASAA comment on how the settings interact and how
> you survived the transition?

I don't know what ASAA is, but we did spell out all the labels because
some of those abbreviations really annoyed me (wrong reason, but it does
make sense). Whatever you put in webpub.def overrides the MARC labels.

How to survive? Beer? Looking at what other people did. The only problem
with following other people's code is that some of us have different group
codes meaning different stuff. The first thing you need is a good chart of
what MARC fields are in which group codes. Once that's done, half the
battle is over.

If you wan't, I can send you copies of our files so you can see some of
the things we did. For example, staff want all those 0xx fields, but we
don't think the user needs to see them. So we suppressed most of them, and
those that display do so at the bottom. Using both of these forms gives
you great control.