[Dspace-general] Subscripts in Abstracts

[Grace Wiersma]

Martin,

The copy and paste method will work for you if you tweak it. This means that after the copy and paste action, you must *reverse* the metadata submission process, so to speak, by pressing the prior step buttons at the top of the screen to force it to move *backward* to an earlier stage. Then, reverse directions again by pressing the *next* step buttons, clicking through the process to where you had stopped, and then moving on to the next step in submission. This apparently has the effect of forcing the character property data (super- and subscript information) that accompanies what you already pasted into the form before to be *swallowed* by the server so that it regurgitates the proper characters to the screen from then onward. If you do not see the characters display as they should by the time you get to the subsequent step in submission, it has not worked and you need to try again. Sometimes it takes a couple of tries, as I recall. For wild and wooly characters, this workaround is not effective, but super- and subscript characters are now apparently part of the core encoding that is accepted by the system.

Sorry, I am not looking at the submission screen at the moment, so cannot be more precise about the exact names of buttons, etc.

Hope this helps.

Grace Wiersma
Cataloging & Metadata Services
MIT Libraries
gwiersma at mit.edu
(617) 253-0643

-----Original Message-----
From: dspace-general-bounces at MIT.EDU [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin Courtois
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 1:10 PM
To: dspace-general at mit.edu
Subject: [Dspace-general] Subscripts in Abstracts

Is there a way to render subscripts or superscripts correctly in
abstracts?

We use DSpace for electronic theses and dissertations, and many
submissions have special characters or symbols in the abstract.  For
some symbols, the student can use Word to insert the symbol, then copy
it into the DSpace submission form.  But, this process doesn't work
with sub- or superscripts.

Thanks for any suggestions or ideas,

Marty

Martin Courtois
Information Technology Assistance Center
509 Hale Library
Kansas State University
Manhattan KS 66506
Phone: 785 532-4428
Fax: 785 532-3199
E-mail: courtois at ksu.edu
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