Comment 5 for bug 1834665

Thanks for your work on this, Bill! We had a chance to look at this in the Cataloging Working Group, and we had some feedback:

1) Your branch uses ‡ as the subfield delimiter, but the existing flat text editor uses $. The CWG has a strong preference to keep using $, since that's available on a lot more keyboards. :-)

2) A long-standing issue for catalogers that use MarcEdit a lot: MarcEdit uses 2 spaces between the MARC tag and delimiters, e.g.:

=245 10$aPacific seaweeds :$ba guide to common seaweeds of the West Coast /$cLouis D. Druehl and Bridgette E. Clarkston.

The Evergreen flat text editor only uses one, e.g.:

=245 10$aPacific seaweeds

It would be nice if we could copy/paste between the two more easily!

3) A general observation: a common workflow for catalogers is to troubleshoot format icons. It would be helpful if the flat text editor offered a preview of which format icon(s) will be displayed. Otherwise, it leads to an awkward workflow of going to the flat text editor, then clicking the view in catalog button (which is a totally different view), and alternating between the two tabs.

4) It would also be helpful to have access to the cover image within the Angular catalog, rather than having to go out to the OPAC view.

5) My own observation: it would be nice to have a toast message that pops up when a record saves successfully.