Entomological labels

- Fitting text to a Word table is very difficult. You may not notice how some of the text will not fit into the volume and simply disappear.
- Quickly replace text and multiply labels on a sheet is unrealistic.
- Even bigger problems arise when you need to add text.
- There is no positioning of labels on the word sheet.
- It is a long and tedious task to make five labels from one point, ten from another, seven from the third, and so on.
- When transferring a document from machine to machine, text and tables can "crawl". In general, it is better not to save in *.doc and use*. rtf.
- In new versions of Word, the document created in the old one may simply crumble.

PS
Made a video showing the whole process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1tmSjZCN9U

This post was edited by Bianor - 12/23/2016 18: 46

Some talk about nothing
Someone word closer, and someone korel....
I, for example, used to the word. There are templates that I developed more than 15 years ago and still use today. They suit me perfectly.
And about the" scattering " of the document in Word....
This already, IMHO, depends on the user who uses this very document, and in no case on the Word.

This post was edited by vasiliy-feoktistov - 12/23/2016 19: 33

  
And about the" scattering " of the document in Word....
This already, IMHO, depends on the user who uses this very document, and in no case on the Word.

It depends on the settings of Word. If you work only on one computer with a configured document, then more or less. If the finished document is written to a flash drive and opened on another computer, then you can be very upset. Word-crooked software.
The fact that Bianor posted a mini-guide to working in Corel is great. Maybe someone will need it. Another thing is that most users do not have this program on their computer and they have little understanding of "what they eat it with".

It depends on the settings of Word. If you work only on one computer with a configured document, then more or less. If the finished document is written to a flash drive and opened on another computer, then you can be very upset. Word-crooked software.
The fact that Bianor posted a mini-guide to working in Corel is great. Maybe someone will need it. Another thing is that most users do not have this program on their computer and they have little understanding of "what they eat it with".

Are you saying that if I make out and save a Word document on my laptop, and then take the flash drive to work in order to print it there for free and in a quiet environment, then I may have problems? The fact is that one very good person took and threw me in the personal World-dov templates for labels, for which I am very grateful to him. But it will be a shame if this action "does not work"

It depends on the settings of Word. If you work only on one computer with a configured document, then more or less. If the finished document is written to a flash drive and opened on another computer, then you can be very upset. Word-crooked software.
The fact that Bianor posted a mini-guide to working in Corel is great. Maybe someone will need it. Another thing is that most users do not have this program on their computer and they have little understanding of "what they eat it with".

I agree.
Perhaps in addition to the fact that the word is crooked software
Curves are not software, but the user's hands as a rule ))

Are you saying that if I make out and save a Word document on my laptop, and then take the flash drive to work in order to print it there for free and in a quiet environment, then I may have problems? The fact is that one very good person took and threw me in the personal World-dov templates for labels, for which I am very grateful to him. But it will be a shame if this action "does not work"

Yes, that's exactly what I said. Everything will depend on the Office version and Word settings. Your template may simply split up when you open the file.

I agree.
Perhaps in addition to the fact that the word is crooked software
Curves are not software, but the user's hands as a rule ))

Word publications are absolutely not accepted in print shops, even in digital ones. That's saying a lot.

Word publications are absolutely not accepted in print shops, even in digital ones. That's saying a lot.

I don't know...
My templates were created from under the 98th Windows, and now seven and 2010 office. For all the time, no problems with them, so significant that they would refuse the word.
And in printing houses, they simply don't want to make any unnecessary gestures, other than just stupidly print the document. That's it

I don't know...
My templates were created from under the 98th Windows, and now seven and 2010 office. For all the time, no problems with them, so significant that they would refuse the word.
And in printing houses, they simply don't want to make any unnecessary gestures, other than just stupidly print the document. That's all

I'm not discouraging you from working in Word. Everyone does what is convenient for them or what they are used to. It's just that not only is it more convenient to type labels in publishing programs, but there are also an order of magnitude more opportunities there. For example, I also sometimes type in Word at home. But I like InDesign. In addition, from it, the finished document can be stupidly saved in pdf format and printed without any problems anywhere. Previously, such a program for layout QuarkXPress was popular, a very convenient and understandable program. Minus one - you can save it only in the original format and open it on another computer only when the program is installed.

 
And in printing houses, they simply don't want to make any unnecessary gestures, other than just stupidly print the document. That's all

They don't have to edit the layout. The document should be ready for printing.

Are you saying that if I make out and save a Word document on my laptop, and then take the flash drive to work in order to print it there for free and in a quiet environment, then I may have problems?

By the way, Zhenya, you can do the following: type labels in Word, then save the document in pdf format (in the latest versions of Office there is such a possibility) and print this document from any computer. Only it should have a program for opening pdf files.

I agree.
Perhaps in addition to the fact that the word is crooked software
Curves are not software, but the user's hands as a rule ))

The word is not crooked, it is used for other tasks. The *.doc and *.html formats have essentially the same text markup structure. I think that everyone knows how a site can split up on a local machine due to local settings. The word is not intended for layout, but for editing texts and making them simple. In fact, it is an advanced notepad.
In Corel, you can translate text into curves in one motion, save the document in an early version, for example, in the 9th version, and be completely sure that this document will be opened in any printing house and on any computer. You can export to PDF along with the fonts and also not worry about compatibility.
Actually, I do not agitate and do not insist on this program, I just tried many programs and out of all the many, it turned out to be the easiest to work with and gives quite a high-quality result. And then everyone decides for themselves what is more convenient for them.

Someone else is writing in ink.

A couple of subtleties of razota with Corel.

Let's say we need to mark the center of the label, or any other place on it where we want to stick a pin. For perfectionists who line up insects in perfectly even rows, this can be very relevant. First, we take our label and draw a circle with the specified tool.:



To make the circle smooth, hold down shift when drawing. After we have drawn it, we can clamp the dimensions corresponding to the pin's diameter. This is done in the same way as setting the size of the label itself.
You can set the color of the circle. The color is selected in the palette that is located to the right of the working window. A left-click determines the fill color, and a right-click determines the stroke color. We don't need the outline, so we left-click on the color we like, and right-click on the topmost square in the palette with a diagonal cross, which means that the outline will not have any color.
Then we need to align this circle with the label. To do this, select both objects-the circle and the label itself. There is one feature here. First, we need to select the object that we want to align, and then, by holding down the shift button, select the object RELATIVE to WHICH we will align. If we select several objects, all of them will be aligned with the last one. The alignment menu is located here:



However, it is much more convenient to use "hot keys":
C - horizontal center,
E-vertical center,
L-left edge,
R-right edge,
T-top edge,
B-bottom edge.
If we want to place a circle in the center of the label, select the circle first, then hold down the shift button and select the label as well, and then just press the "C" button, then "E". The circle is positioned exactly in the center of the label. If we want to place the circle not exactly in the center, but, say, center it vertically, but so that it is located five millimeters from the right edge, and not in the center, the procedure will be as follows:
- Draw a circle.
- Select the circle and label.
- Press " R " and " E " (the circle is centered at the right edge of the label).
- Set the shift distance of 5 mm (as we positioned the labels on the sheet) and click the left arrow.
Now our placemark is positioned vertically exactly in the center. and horizontally shifted from the right edge of the label by 5 mm.

If we need to make lines for cutting labels (although I just cut in white, but what if someone needs it?), we first draw a vertical line, set it to the minimum thickness, and make it dotted:



We need it to be positioned exactly between the labels. To do this, align its top relative to the upper-right corner of the label. This can be done, for example, like this. Select a line, then use the shift button to select the label, and then press the "R" and "T" buttons - right and top alignment. If the distance between labels is 1 mm, set the offset distance to 0.5 mm, select the line and press the "right arrow" button. The line shifts by half a millimeter. Now we set the shift distance of 21 mm (20 mm label + 1 mm interval between labels), select the label along with the line, then click "+" (clone) and "right arrow" (shift right by 21 mm). When the labels fill the width of the sheet, we will turn the last dotted line 90 degrees and repeat all our actions in the opposite direction:



The entire block of labels and lines can be placed in the center of the sheet. To do this, we select all our work, and then group it into one object (Ctrl+G). The "P" button will place our block exactly in the center of the printed sheet.

This post was edited by Bianor - 12/28/2016 22: 23

And another way to draw dotted lines for cutting.

- Create a clone of the label frame ("+"button).
- Increase it incrementally by the amount of space between labels (if the label is 20x10 mm, and the interval is 1 mm, the new frame should be 21x11 mm)
- Making the contour "super-thin".



- Open the outline menu and make it dotted.



- We multiply labels in a well-known way.



The dotted line is less neat than in the first case, but the method is simpler.

Bianor, this is all very well.
It may be possible to place a ready-made template. Took otkoreektiroval as it should be and the end of the matter, if of course the copyright is not violated))

Yes, it's easy. Here is the template:



You can download it here:

https://yadi.sk/d/FSPoY92835cFa3

It opens in any version starting from the 9th one.
You will have to reproduce yourself, however, this is a simple task.

Can someone tell me what the numbers 483 on the label mean?

This post was edited by Zunimassa - 03.12.2018 17: 40

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By default, I believe that there are no other labels for the same instance.

Either G. L[ambert].Sladen, the daughter of Major Alexander G. L[ambert].Sladen (a British ornithologist who was elected Honorary treasurer of the British Ornithologists ' Club in London in 1936), mentioned, among other things, among the guests of the Club's meetings in its bulletin for 1937, or the Major himself (without the first name name; such a name was found, including in his military documents). In general, a very military genus; but at the end of the XIX century, another Sladen described echinoderms (I think in Latin America).

About the three digits.

Option 1 (the most natural in general, but improbable for this case).
" 483 " is the copy number for the specified collection year: the standard of simplification adopted by the collector for his own collection, which allows you to immediately see where the material came from and what year, and the exact dates should have been in the campaign diary for this year, where an entry about a specific collection is made. excursions for a specific date were accompanied by a note like: excursion material - under labels from 460 to 490. This would save the importer from having to repeat the date on each label. But if the collector did not specify the date, but did not forget to name his beloved, then it's quite a small matter: find his diary.

Doubts about option 1.
a) There was no need to save space on the numeric designation of the month and date, not much higher than the three-digit "483".
b) It is unlikely that Miss or Major Sladen is so lazy in specifying dates (a person remembers a place while he lives in it and catches it - and even longer-and dates for each instance, on the third day can not remember) could be scrupulous in keeping a diary.
c) The label is typeset, and not on a typewriter (typewriters printed signs one under the other, and they did not use smudgy printing ink, but tape). For Miss or Major Sladen, even on their return to London, the method of typesetting would have been too manufactured and complicated (and even more so in Brazil). Of course, the geography is given in standard Latin script, without Portuguese gadgets (like Estacao de Tiuma instead of estação de Tiuma-Tiuma station).

Therefore-option 2 (the only real one).
The label is not the original one (from the collector), but the registration one - the owner of the collection that received the material (judging by the abbreviation B. M., without any surnames, this is the collection of the British Museum, British Museum). Consequently, the original label was already incomplete (as a result of which, in addition to information about the point and collector, the museum had nothing to transfer to the new label from the original one), because the museum is not so smart as to put a lame label, where all the geography is given, and for some reason the short date was moved to the receipt log, label for the sake of trouble is replaced with a number... It is quite possible that there was no collector's label for a particular copy, but only a message when transferring the material to the museum that the material was from such and such an area, so the museum in the typesetting press only needed to change the copy number from copy to copy. So the specified three digits " 483 " can be:
a) unlikely: the registration number of the accepted copy from this person fora given collection year, and then probably not the box number, because even with a team of Negroes, you can't collect five hundred even small boxes in one year, and even more so you can't transport them across the ocean, especially if the main thing in them is still related to ornithology;
b) more likely: the registration number of the specimen in the material accepted from this person inc)
most likely (since the number "1925-483" is placed after the abbreviation of the museum's name): a number in the general annual accounting of museum receipts (i.e., all of them, not from a given transferor); then it may well even be the number of the entire collection, i.e., in fact, a cipher that is standardized for some part of the museum's storage (distributed explicitly by year) and helps you know to which specific fund you should return the copy after working with it. In any case, this number has nothing to do with faunal information about the specimen. Even the last name, probably not of the collector, but simply of the transmitting person.

By the way, in 1926-1927 (!) there was an expedition to Paraguay and Brazil, supported by the trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Foundation, etc., about which there is an article in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (vol. 38, issue 257, June 1932). But more importantly, Percy Sladen himself led an expedition to Brazil when he was alive (an article about it was published in 1903), where everything was collected, from beetles to mammals, so the label may well refer to the material collected by that expedition. By the way: reptiles from the collections of that expedition definitely went to the British Museum. Perhaps the major, as the heir to the expedition leader, kept some expedition collections of insects at home, and by 1925 he finally realized that the main thing for him was ornithology, not entomology, and that in general you can't take the material with you to the next world.

For more precise information about the specimen, you should first look up publications (entomological in the first place) about the expedition of Percy Sladen to Brazil, which are not yet available on the web, and if possible clarify the places and dates of collection. In particular, A. Robert collected in Chapada (Mato Grosso) but not about any transfer of them to the museum in the title of the reporting article in 1903 (see "Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London", vol. 1) not mentioned yet, which is kind of encouraging...

This post was edited by A. J. Elez-04.12.2018 07: 22

I admire your erudition and analytical skills.

Help me decipher the cryptography.

I assume that this is C. rutilans perignitus and not Arinsa, but Arinsal in the Pyrenees.

This post was edited by Bianor - 12.01.2019 12: 26

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Help me decipher the cryptography.

I assume that this is C. rutilans perignitus and not Arinsa, but Arinsal in the Pyrenees.

Most likely (of course, if the copy itself corresponds to this), besides, at the bottom is added (in French) "Andorra "("Andorra"), and Arinsal is located in Andorra. In the section" Images of insects "in the topic" Subgenera Chrysocarabus and Chrysotribax (Carabus) " (message from 31.01.2010 URL #24), T. rpanin posted a photo of a pair collected in Andorra at a slightly lower altitude from the third decade of June to the second decade of July. Your label says June (juin) in French, which is also quite normal.

This year will be the 30th anniversary of my entomological research...
Naturally, during this time, my entomological label has significantly evolved in the direction of increasing the text and font clarity, for rare copies of insects I try to use higher-density photocopy paper (160 g / m)... I still enter the date with an expensive, high-quality black pen (writing in black Moscow ink with a feather pen is very troublesome and time-consuming)... True, I will make a reservation on this label, an expensive high-quality capillary was used...
This is roughly how my label began to look (again, I'll make a reservation now the font has changed somewhat - it has become clearer and slightly larger...the line with biotope, on the contrary, has lost weight...).

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It's been a long time since this topic has been raised. I have a question about biotopes (for labels). With traditional forests, everything is clear-spruce forests, birch forests, pine forests.... but here, in our places periodically, especially along the high, non-flooded banks of rivers and rivulets, there are forests-not forests, but forest-like strips consisting of rather ancient (for a hundred years exactly) oaks. maples, limes, elms, with an undergrowth of hazel thickets. What is a more polaconical name for such a biotope?

Do they get flooded during the annual floods?

Do they get flooded during the annual floods?

Above it is written: "especially on high, non-flooded banks of rivers and rivulets"!!!

Sorry, I overlooked it, if it was flooded, it would be called "floodplain forest". As it is, the etymology of this landscape is not entirely clear. In theory, there is no shortage of moisture in your area, so there should be no classic gallery forests. What kind of vegetation surrounds these forests? Maybe it all grew there too before, but then it was cut down, and along the rivers - remnants of the former?

Above it is written: "especially on high, non-flooded banks of rivers and rivulets"!!!

We have such a thing called ghost forests.

This post was edited by kovyl - 11.07.2019 07: 45

In the steppe zone, yes, but in the north - I doubt it. In addition, bayrachny scaffolding suggests the presence of beams. In the Lower Volga region, on a flat terrain, there are still gallery forests, just along the yereks. But what is there in the north - HZ, you probably need to ask local botanists and environmentalists.

It's been a long time since this topic has been raised. I have a question about biotopes (for labels). With traditional forests, everything is clear-spruce forests, birch forests, pine forests.... but here, in our places periodically, especially along the high, non-flooded banks of rivers and rivulets, there are forests-not forests, but forest-like strips consisting of rather ancient (for a hundred years exactly) oaks. maples, limes, elms, with an undergrowth of hazel thickets. What is a more polaconical name for such a biotope?

And riverine forests are not suitable?

Yes, there seems to be such a term, but, in my opinion, this is some kind of combined hodgepodge - different sources write down both high-water and floodplain forests, and these are two types of forests that are very different in origin, composition and geographical distribution. But, in general, the classification of vegetation, and especially forests, is famous for its pluralism of opinions, and IMHO it's better for phytocenologists to break spears on this topic. And on the entomological label, it is more useful to indicate not the formal type of forest according to any of the many competing systems (you can even get to Brown-Blank), but its specific composition and age. For example, "a century-old oak grove on the bank of the river so-and-so". At least, this will definitely be understood by anyone who reads it in the future.

This post was edited by ENO - 11.07.2019 12: 56

We have such a thing called ghost forests.

Unfortunately, not our option

And riverine forests are not suitable?

So I write! Only here we have riverine, as a rule, willows, and water meadows. So I thought, but do I characterize this case correctly?!

And on the entomological label, it is more useful to indicate not the formal type of forest according to any of the many competing systems (you can even get to Brown-Blank), but its specific composition and age. For example, "a century-old oak grove on the bank of the river so-and-so". At least, this will definitely be understood by anyone who reads it in the future.

The fact of the matter is that you can't decide what it is-there are about a dozen old-growth breeds in the stand.

There is also one more garbage - in recent years, I have already entered the tradition of "catching" Lasiocampa quercus males in an original way - with the windshield of a car. It's pretty good! And, unlike other types of lepidoptera, with this method of" fishing " they practically do not lose quality. Come out and pick it up before others crush it. But what do you call this method of fishing?

Yes, you don't need to call it anything special. You just shot them down on the fly
And what, so often come across that stably glass cars get lost?
About riverine areas. It seems that "floodplains"would still be more correct. As for everyone else, it's really better to turn to geobotanics. Or see what they write on the labels.

No, wrong, floodplain forests necessarily imply flooding during floods.

It's been a long time since this topic has been raised. I have a question about biotopes (for labels). With traditional forests, everything is clear-spruce forests, birch forests, pine forests.... but here, in our places periodically, especially along the high, non-flooded banks of rivers and rivulets, there are forests-not forests, but forest-like strips consisting of rather ancient (for a hundred years exactly) oaks. maples, limes, elms, with an undergrowth of hazel thickets. What is a more polaconical name for such a biotope?

Marble forests, maybe?

Marble forests, maybe?

Basically, it fits!

Yes, you don't need to call it anything special. You just shot them down on the fly
And what, so often come across that stably glass cars get lost?
About riverine areas. It seems that "floodplains"would still be more correct. As for everyone else, it's really better to turn to geobotanics. Or see what they write on the labels.

Well, what is not a fishing method?! After all, there was also an original method here - a cat!
Yes, often! In the last week, when the sun is clear, even at +12C, they fly over the roads. You can accurately detect 5-6 flights in a day. And with glass.... well, for the third year in a row, at least one per season, I definitely catch it. You can't really run after them, but ...
The fact that they are not floodplains is unequivocal.