In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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.

Hopefully everyone knows that you can normalize them manually by editing 
the group name.  I notice that the edit is ignored if you change 
"Philosophy" to "Philosophy", even if some entries have "philosophy" as 
the keyword.  Easy to work around by multiple edits.

As a side note, the group edit warning sheet doesn't play well with the 
new Leopard table editing, unfortunately.  It takes a couple of tries 
before the edit actually starts.  Probably easiest to check the box and 
disable it.

-- 
adam


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