[Isis-users] J-ISIS Release Candidate 1.2

Sun Jun 18 07:35:05 CEST 2017

Dear Jean-Claude and ISIS Friends

I've just unzipped jisis_suite.11.June.2017 for windows and just opened. I
haven't yet started working.

My immediate project is to prepare a print ready copy of bibliography of
Malayalam books published during 2001-2005. It comes around more than 6,000
in 62 subject.
I've been searching for a most suitable package for the purpose. Since I'm
an expert in cds/isis since 1986 and prepared many printed bibliographies
(Bamboo Bibliography in 1990 was an acclaimed one) I know the capability of
isis to do the job. Alas! it is only in English.

Past three days I was madly searching for a package, reading and going
through many  like EndNote, Zotero, Mendely, DB/TextWorks, Jabref, DBs for
Latex, etc. etc. not finding the excellent sorting and formatting
facilities provided by isis.
Very disappointedly I googled "cds isis unicode 2017" and to my great
excitement and luck I came to the latest J-ISIS, thanks to the untiring
pursuit of Jean-Claude.

Now I'm starting my work, the 9th volume of 'Grandhasoochi', a unique
bibliography in all indian languages with J-ISIS. Though I haven't explored
I'm confident that I can accomplish it.

I haven't used isis for the last three years after my retirement. Now I'm
recollecting all that I did in 25 years with the great isis.  I'll
communicate all my new findings in using Unicode Malayalam. Since I'm a
member in developing Unicode language technology in Malayalam and designed
Unicode fonts based on traditional script (Rachana, Meera, Keraleeya,
Uroob, Tamil Meera- Meera Inimai) I hope I can expose many things related
to Indic scripts.

May your efforts find outstanding results in unknown countries and
languages.

Loving and Thanking

*സസ്നേഹം*
*- ഹു _______________________*
*If you optimize everything,*
*you will always be unhappy. *
*— DONALD KNUTH*

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Ernesto Spinak <ernesto_luis_96 at hotmail.com
> wrote:

> Jean Claude
> Good news, thanks for your effort
> Ernesto Spinak
>
> ________________________________________
> De: isis-users [isis-users-bounces+ernesto_luis_96=hotmail.com at iccisis.org]
> en nombre de Jean-Claude Dauphin [jc.dauphin at gmail.com]
> Enviado: domingo, 11 de junio de 2017 16:55
> Para: <isis-users at iccisis.org>; Jean-Claude Dauphin
> Asunto: [Isis-users] J-ISIS Release Candidate 1.2
>
> Dear ISIS Users,
>
> Please find for your consideration the 11 June 2017 Release Candidate of
> J-ISIS. The Release Candidate (RC) is a beta version with potential to be a
> final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs<
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_bug> emerge.
> J-ISIS 11 June 2017<https://github.com/J-ISIS/J-ISIS/releases/download/
> v1.2/jisis_suite.11.June.2017.zip>
> The Release Note  describes the main Improvements and Bug fixes of J-ISIS
> 11 June 2017 Release Candidate
> J-ISIS 11 June 2017 Release Note<https://github.com/J-
> ISIS/J-ISIS/blob/master/J-ISIS%20release%201-2.pdf>
>
> <https://kenai.com/projects/j-isis/downloads/download/jisis_
> suite%2015%20February%202016%20RC.zip>
> You will find below a summary of the major bug fixes and improvements, but
> please read the release note at it contains more details and screen shots.
>
> As usual, I would be very grateful if you could take the time to try
> J-ISIS. All your comments, suggestions, improvement requests and bug
> descriptions are welcome.
>
> Best wishes,
> Jean-Claude
>
> J-ISIS Release Candidate 1.2
>
>
> I.               Fixes to the J-ISIS Print Format
>
>
>
> 1)     Repeatable literals were not working as expected with field dummy
> selectors (D or N)
> |Hello|d270 was producing an empty string even if field 270 was present
>
>
> 2)     Conditional literals with subfield dummy selectors (D or N)
> “Hello”d270^d was always producing Hello as output even if no subfield ^d
> was present
>  Same for “Hello”n270^d,
>
> 3)      MFN command was raising an error in REF function expressions like:
>
> ref(mfn,
>
> if p(v19) and v19^x<='0'then", "d963^i,
>
> (if v19^x<='0'then|<b>|v19^a*2|</b>|,| |v19^b fi)
>
> fi,
>
> )
>
> 4)     Extracting a fragment of a Subfield specifying only the offset
> (*offset) was not working
>
> V270^a*2 for example
>
> 5)     String function F(expr-1 ,expr-2,expr-3)default width value
>
> 6)     String functions S, SS, and CISIS functions LEFT, MID, REPLACE, and
> RIGHT were not working in repeatable group.
>
> For example
>
> (if s(v270^d) <> '1966' then '****' else '1966' fi/)
>
> 7)     New Print Format Command for Unconditional Literals <text> …</text>
>
> Plain text or most probably HTML formatting can now be imbedded between
> the <text> and </text> tagging commands, it works like unconditional
> literals.
>
> II. Print Format for Repeatable Subfields
>
> Subfield occurrences
>
> It is possible to access individual occurrences of a repeatable subfield
> by specifying the occurrence number or range, enclosed in square brackets,
> immediately following the field selector or field selector followed by
> occurrence selector. For examples:
>
> V270[1]^a[2],v270[1]^a[2]
>
> It is possible to display specific occurrence of a repeatable subfield,
> narrowing the output to one or a range of occurrences of a repeatable
> subfield by specifying the occurrence number or range, enclosed in square
> brackets, immediately following the field selector.
>
> v10^a[1] for example:
>
> It is coded as follows:
>
> [<index> [..<upper index>]]
>
>  <index> and <upper index> refer to the first (or unique) and last
> occurrences, respectively. If the specified <index> is greater than the
> actual number of occurrences, no output is generated. The same occurs if
> data subfield is not repeatable and <index> is set to a number equal or
> greater than 2. However, if <index> is set to 1 and it is used in a
> non-repeatable subfield, content is normally output. This component must be
> used outside a repeatable group; otherwise, <upper index> is ignored. If
> double dot (..) is used and <upper index> is missing LAST is assumed. The
> LAST keyword is set with the value of total occurrences of a data subfield.
>
> III.         Print Format Global Variables
> Global variables are stored in a virtual ISIS record which is a collection
> of fields, fields may be repeatable and have occurrences, and fields or
> occurrences may have subfields. The record, field and subfield concepts are
> identical to ISIS.
>
> Global variables are referenced by the letter G followed by the tag of the
> field. The G (a mnemonic code for Global variable) followed by the virtual
> record tag is the command telling J-ISIS that you want to assign or extract
> a field. It may be entered indifferently in upper or lower case.
> Global variables can be assigned data through the Print Format commands:
> g100:=((v25/)),(g100^a/)
> g10 := (v10^a)
>
> You may assign or change the value of a global variable as follows:
>
> Gn:=(format) (for example: G5:=(v10)).
>
> Note that the parentheses around format are required.
>  Global variables can be extracted for output like V variables just by
> replacing the V by G that means that data will be extracted from the
> virtual record. It supports repeatable groups as well.
>
> Please note that it is a first attempt to implement Global variables and
> that specific functions could also be implemented to further manipulate
> them. Please let me know if it is worth to continue working in this
> direction.
>
> IV.         New Paging feature into DB Browser and Terms Dictionary
> Databases could be huge. If a database has millions of records and all
> records are loaded into memory, it will consume a huge amount of memory and
> will of course be very slow. As a matter of facts, user will probably only
> look at 10 or maybe 20 records depending on the viewport size, there is no
> need to download all the records locally. That’s the reason why the paging
> feature was introduced into the DB browser and Terms Dictionary Browser
> modules.
> To make it easy to use the Paging feature, a page navigation toolbar
> provides the interface to do the navigation.
> 10 000 records are loaded per page and the user can scroll easily and fast
> through the page records. For example, the VIAF database has near 32
> million records (31 305 939 records exactly)
>
>
> V.             Export features to select search results and using a hit
> file to drive output are now implemented
>
> You can now export records retrieved from search as well as export records
> following the order defined by a hit file produced by the PrintSort module
>
> Note: A hit file manager will be developed in the future to better manage
> search hit files and hit sort files
>
>
> VI.         The Number of Terms in the index is now stored in an external
> file to avoid the time consuming task of counting them.
>
> The /indexes directory contains a subdirectory called master that contains
> the main index files generated by Lucene open-source search software<
> http://lucene.apache.org/>. A new file named “termscount.properties” is
> now generated by J-ISIS to keep the number of terms in the index as well as
> a time stamp, and is stored in the /indexes/master folder. The number of
> terms in the index is only computed when the index has changed and replaced
> with the new time stamp in the external file.
>
>
> For databases with more than 2 millions records, it reduces considerably
> the time spent to get the database information.
>
>
> --
> Jean-Claude Dauphin
>
> jc.dauphin at gmail.com<mailto:jc.dauphin at gmail.com>
>
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>
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