indeed, it was set on "textual". changing that fixed the problem.
Thanks, alex Am 14.09.2007 um 16:51 schrieb Adam R. Maxwell: > > 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 > ============================================= please avoid sending me word attachements; see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html for details and background ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
