[Koha-devel] Clarification of jargon & tidying up

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-09-20 13:10:01 +0100 lars at rovaniemelainen.com wrote:

> * what is "Biblio"?  A bibliographic record?
> 	 * What do "biblionumber" and "biblioitemnumber" refer to?        Is 
> one the 
> metadata and the other the instance / physical artifact?

As I understand it, your guesses are correct. biblionumber is the 
number of a bibliographic record, while biblioitemnumber is the number 
of a particular item's bibliographic info.

> Also, is there a recommended writing style guide?

Not that I know of, but all of your suggestions should be in it, at 
least for English. (I know French differs on punctuation and spaces.) 
Care to search on the wiki for one and start one if not?

> A slightly more labor intensive change would be to use more CSS for 
> layout in
> the future versiosn so that we don't continue to use high repetitions 
> of 
>   for horziontal layout.

There are CSS-based templates for OPAC. I'm not sure about intranet. 
It definitely should be an aim IMO.

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