Re: [IUG] Modifying Monographic labels

[Bob Rasmussen <ras at anzio dot com>]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Angela Igo wrote:

> Steve,

> For nonfiction we use the Dewey Decimal System, and there is only room 
> for 8 characters on one line, so if the number past the decimal is 
> longer than 7 digits we drop it down one line.  But we don't want to 
> drop down just one digit, we normally drop down at least 3, and indent 
> it one space.  With fiction, again since there is only room for 8 
> characters, we would take a name like Patterson and break it between the 
> "r" and the "s" and indent the second line one space.  My supervisor 
> refers to these as "intellectual" breaks rather than "logical" breaks.  
> Our goal is to make this as easy as possible for the pages and clerks 
> who print our labels.  Right now they can edit the label within the 
> Modify Monographic Label dialogue box and hit print.  If you have any 
> suggestions, or if my explanation didn't make sense, please let me know.

Your supervisor is asking for the moon. It's almost trivial to break a 	
number based on its length. But to break words, especially people's names, 
in an "intellectual" way is very difficult. I assume s/he means between 
syllables. If this was easy, there wouldn't be so many bad examples in 
your average newspaper.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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