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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
