On Sep 14, 2007, at 05:09, Alex Hamann wrote:

> I just noticed that autocompletion in the single fields of a given
> item seem to obey different rules.
> If I fill in a author's name the autocompletion will always correctly
> provide me suggestions following the pattern "lastname, first name"
> the same is not true for the field shortauthor, though. Here I am
> only provided with options containing lastnames only. My habit is to
> use an abbreviated first name as well. It seems as if the comma is
> interpreted as a delimiter in the latter case, not so in the first.
> How is the handling of completion for the single fields defined and
> how can I influence it so that I obtain suggestions in the
> shortauthor field based on my scheme?

Have you set "Shortauthor" as a person field in the Defaults pref  
pane?  That might fix the problem.  Name fields are tokenized  
differently from other fields.

-- 
adam

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