More database stuff

[Fredrik Ekman]

Anders wrote:
>Extras? Like those facsimiles of old issues that have been included
>occasionally? In those cases I just added a bit of text, e.g.
>'91-48 was delivered with a facsimile of 48-03'.

That is exactly what I meant, and I think that that is what Jorgen meant, 
too, when assigning these a special code, like '1991-48E' if I remember 
correctly.

B-nummer, which Harry mentioned, is something different again. These 
should be counted as separate titles and put in separate files, as is now 
being done.

Jorgen:

I think you should try to sort out your format differences with Harry. 
The whole idea with having one standardized format for all comics is 
defeated otherwise. Your point about using '1994' rather than '94' is 
valid. What do you say, Harry? 

Your comments about normalization of codes have struck me too. The 
normalization process is for simplified sorting. Couldn't we have some 
kind of "denormalization" of the output files, making searches easier 
even if one is not aware of this normalization? Or is there some point in 
leaving the codes be in output files as well?

The problem with exceeding 80 characters on one line has been discussed 
before and as long as we stick with the "one story, one line" principle 
there must always be a trade-off. More information will mean longer lines 
and it will never be possible to stay within the 80 character boundary 
for every entry.

  /F