Plugin for converting MARC 21 bibliographic records between .mrc, .mrk and .xml file formats.
vim-marc converts between 3 standard formats:
- .mrk mnemonic text format native to MarcEdit's MarcEditor, used for editing and displaying bibliographic records in a human readable format.
- .mrc MARC 21 Machine Readable Cataloguing standard for bibliographic data using ISO 2709:2008.
- .xml XML format using the Library of Congress MARC21 XML Schema.
:Mrc21 Converts to MARC 21 format, sets file type to .mrc
:MrcMrk Converts to mnemonic text format, sets file type to .mrk
:MrcXML Converts to MARC XML format, sets file type to .xml
:MrcCycle Cycles through MARC 21, Mnnemonic text format and MARC XML, sets file type respectively to .mrc, .mrk and .xml
Hot keys for the above commands can created with the map command and added to your VIM configuration file .vimrc (Linux/Unix) or vimrc (Windows).
map <C-C> :Mrc21<CR>
map <C-K> :MrcMrk<CR>
map <C-X> :MrcXML<CR>
map <C-Y> :MrcCycle<CR>
These can be changed to a hot key of your choice.
Note: A list of predefined mode-specific mappings can be inserted in
/plugin/vim-marc.vim
vim-marc is packaged with syntax highlighting for .mrc and .mrk formats.
It uses the build-in .xml highlighting in vim.
Note: Vim has a maximum # of characters per line that it can highlight by default. This value is 3000. If you have a long record, or multiple records in a single .mrc file, you may hit the highlighting limit.
To remove the limit add set smc=0 to your vimrc file.Warning: this may add redraw delay. Alternatively, set it to a large value of your choice (eg. 10000).
When converting between .mrk and .mrc, vim-marc enforces utf-8 character encoding in order to get the correct ASCII character length.
To view the documentation in vim type :help vim-marc
If the documentation is not loading, compile a help tags file :helptags ALL
Tested on Vim version 8.1 and Python version 3.5.2 or later.
Pull requests welcome! Please feel free to rate the plugin on vim.org if you like it!