On 29 Apr 2008, at 4:46 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote:
I have poked around my key word listings, and found the following.
I have three forms of "philosophy":
philosophy
PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy
If I start entering "Phil" in any case combination, I get all three of
these showing up in autocomplete choices.
Now, these are forms that appear in the key word field of various BT
records. But, if I look in the groups pane of key words, there is only
one listing:
philosophy
So it looks like BD is doing the right thing by ignoring case and
putting all these into "philosophy" in the key word "groups view". I
don't know why the lowercase won out; maybe it was first?
Yes, it's arbitrary.
I don't know if this requires any action by developers. BD shouldn't
change key word fields, certainly.
And it doesn't, unless you edit it.
Maybe only showing the "canonical" listing in the autocomplete would
help people keep their keyword listings more uniform.
The one showing would then also be arbitrary. So in fact showing them
all allows you to be uniform. Because Bibdesk can't know which one you
prefer.
But that doesn't really sound right either. Autocomplete should list
what's there, whether it fits a certain form or not.
-Adam
Indeed.
Christiaan
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Iona College
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