[Dspace-general] Subscripts in Abstracts

[Sunyeen Pai]

Hi there,

We have a similar request regarding the use of italics in keyword and abstract fields.  My first reaction was that this was not possible, until I saw these emails.

I tried the solution suggested by adding a superscript character using the submission steps at the top and the next button at the bottom of the screen, but no success.  Did I leave something out or is there another solution?  Perhaps a kind of escape character that will trigger the system to interpret the enclosed characters differently?

Thank you very much,
Sunny 
University of Hawaii at Manoa Library

> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 13:32:07 -0400
> From: "Grace Wiersma" <gwiersma at MIT.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Subscripts in Abstracts
> To: "'Martin Courtois'" <courtois at ksu.edu>, <dspace-general at MIT.EDU>
> Message-ID: <004501c7a6ce$4692ad40$77013312 at mitlibraries.ms.mit.edu>
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> 
> 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 worka!
> round 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
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