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earthcalling
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Post by earthcalling »

The missing ones listed in these posts all have an apostrophe in the title.

Could that be the problem? (I've no idea why it might be, but is something they have in common).

Tell you what, I'll edit the title of Lady Windermere and we'll see whether it gets picked up when the Status Table refreshes.

.... edited to Lady Windermeres Fan

Let's take a look a bit later....

David

Update - The status table hasn't updated yet, but I've searched for ' and there aren't any. I bet this is indeed the problem.
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Post by Starlite »

4 hours later and it shows up on the dynamic table. Seems it is indeed the ('). Not sure how to work around that!

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Post by RuthieG »

earthcalling wrote:The missing ones listed in these posts all have an apostrophe in the title.
Oh, well spotted. :clap: And it's so obvious now - how did I miss it? I must be getting old. Grrrr...

EDIT: While I'm at it, presumably these are missing, too:

Herodotus' Histories Vol 2 - km
Tacitus' Histories - km
Machiavelli's "Hist of Florence" Vol. 1 km
Le Morte d'Arthur Vol 2 - Sir Thomas Malory - ld
Santa Claus's Partner by Thomas Nelson Page - stl
Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome - jo
Shakespeare's Hamlet - PL/ce
A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen lb
Two Treatises of Civil Gov't, by John Locke - lm
At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs - pw
Suetonius' Lives of the Twelve Caesars km
Hurlbut's Story of the Bible part 7 -ehl
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable - ez
Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott - mla
Herodotus' Histories Vol. 1 km
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - lm
Eusebius' Church History - stl
Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings by E. Clacy - kb
Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery - CL/ez
Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs lb
Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling - mla
It's A Good Old World by Bruce Barton - law
St. Bartholomew's Eve by G.A. Henty - jo
Alexander's Bridge by Willa Sibert Cather lb
Commentary on Paul's Epistle to the Galatians-pw
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust - cm

So quite a lot of omissions.

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Darn, David, you're good!
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Post by Jc »

Heh "Mr Hogarth's Will" is in the table, and is the only one with an apostrophe. Why only this one, I wonder?

EDIT: I had a look at the catalog page, and the title is actually "Mr Hogarth\'s Will". Karen is the MC for this one. I wonder if it was done on purpose, or was it a typo?
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Jc wrote:Heh "Mr Hogarth's Will" is in the table, and is the only one with an apostrophe. Why only this one, I wonder?
Well, it wasn't the other day, when I looked. Or rather, I must have done a "Find in this page" for Hogarth and it wasn't there, else I wouldn't have included it in my post.

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Post by earthcalling »

Just to note that these titles do show up OK, with apostrophes, in catalogue searches. As far as I can tell, it's only the Status Table that doesn't pick them up.

We ought to take care not to implement any change that would cause problems elsewhere.

(For example, the / in Mr Hogarth/'s Will shows up in the title if you do a catalogue search, which isn't ideal. Likewise, it's not right to drop apostrophes as I did when testing Lady Windermere).

Can tis look at what drives the Status Table?

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Post by Jc »

d'you reckon a " & #39; " might work?
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Or "&squo;", although I suspect that either one will display that way in the DB search, rather than as a single quote or apostrophe mark.
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Post by gypsygirl »

Jc wrote:Heh "Mr Hogarth's Will" is in the table, and is the only one with an apostrophe. Why only this one, I wonder?

EDIT: I had a look at the catalog page, and the title is actually "Mr Hogarth\'s Will". Karen is the MC for this one. I wonder if it was done on purpose, or was it a typo?
On purpose. I was reading this this morning and decided to try escaping the character. I only just got back to see if it worked. If it's going to affect the catalog page, though, I'll take it back out.
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Post by Jc »

Ah, that explains it.
Although, pardon my cluelessness, but why does it "escape the character"?
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Post by PaulW »

In most computer programming languages and operating systems, certain charachters have special meanings, and if you want to have them displayed (instead of using the special meaning), you have to "escape" them, or use a special sequence of charachters. For instance, in Unix shell programming, the double quote mark (") is used as a character string delimiter, and won't display on the screen or printout. If you want it to show up, you have to escape it by using a backslash first (\"). Then it will print out instead of having its special meaning.
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Post by tis »

Yup, the apostrophe was breaking the SQL which generates the table. Now fixed I think. And the DPL column is also added.

These fixes should show up next time Jc refreshes the public version.
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Table updated. Thanks a lot, Chris!
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Post by smijen »

Jc, this is great! I'm just wondering if a link has been / should be posted in the Listeners Wanted thread? (especially now that you have a DPL column) I didn't see one but I could be missing it... being a poor PL'er myself, I am not as familiar with that forum as I should be. :oops:
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