Comment 3 for bug 1309717

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Galen Charlton (gmc) wrote :

On reflection, setting back to low.

Note that while the 008 should be exactly 40 characters wide (for bib records) and the 006 exactly 17 characters wide, the length of the 007 varies depending on the first character. Also note that the convention is /not/ to retain trailing spaces in the 007 when saving the record; the padding should be understood to be a convenience for extracting values. It's OK to force 006 and 008 fields trailing padding when the record is saved, however.

On testing: the editor will throw "FIXME, MARC Editor, fillFixedFields: TypeError: result is undefined" alerts if the record lacks an 006 or 007 field. Removing pullrequest because of this.