I need the following translated into Verdurian, made consistent with the culture, and posted as a ?picture? so I can cut and paste it and use it in a lecture for librarians I will do in a couple of weeks. It is in MARC21 (cataloguing data) and I am going to make the point that MARC21 can be used to catalogue anything, even languages on alien worlds, so I will show people what the catalogue record for the book looks like in the computers of the University of Verduria Library (which, of course, use MARC21).
Anything red must remain in Roman, and preferably in red. The fonts (both Roman and Maraille) should really be in a fixed-width format, like Courier, if that is possible. The punctuation in indigo (which is the : ; + /) I will explain in a bit. Regular punctuation should be converted to its exact Verdurian equivalents (keshash and boly?she keshash). Alas, the non-obvious spacing is important, so please replace all the ugly ^ with a blank space.
This, by the way, is a simple catalogue record.
100^1^^Revouse,^Fatandor,?cShm.
245^10^Pere alautas i Cadhinor^ :?ba textbook for avisar students^/?cby Fatandor Revouse^;^edited by Mark Rosenfelder.
250^^^^18th ed.
260^^^^?esifo^:?b King?s Ministry of Education,?c3480.
300^^^^187 p.^:?bill.^;?c18 cm.
650^^v^Cadhinorian language^+?vOnem?+?x For avisar students.
Glosses
245: whoever does this for me can replace Mark?s name with theirs
250: I need an abbreviation for the Verdurian word for ?edition?.
260: Everyone forgets about ?esifo, so I?ll have my book published there
I assume that the one of the dalu?s ministries publishes textbooks.300: I need abbreviations for the Verdurian word for ?pages?, ?illustrations?, and the local unit of measurement.
650: I assume the cultural equivalent of ?Library of Congress Subject Headings? is something like ?University of Verduria Word List?, but if the University of Verduria doesn?t do this, then I need to know who does. (If it?s not them, replace the v with another Roman letter, like a for Aranicer, (but not o for O?nea, it looks too much like 0). I also figured out that ?onem?? would serve well for ?textbooks?.
I also need to know what is the cultural equivalent of the ?Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules?. Who set up the rules to decide how to catalogue a book? It needn?t be a committee, it can be the Melvil Dewey of the Cadhinorian Plain.
As for the green punctuation, perhaps the + and / could be replaced with the Verdurian equivalents of + and ? . The : and ; I don?t know what to replace with. Perhaps we could make up some special signs?
