Re: [Bibdesk-users] Case sensitivity of key words

[Adam M. G. <a.m...@ma...>]

On Apr 29, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

> In article <3FE...@gm...>,
> Christiaan Hofman <cmh...@gm...> 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.


This multiple edit solution worked perfectly.

Note that you have to quit and restart to clear out the autocomplete  
entries. If you don't, you'll still see entries there that you cleared  
out of the keywords field.



> 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.


It was a little odd because it didn't start working right away, but  
eventually it worked just fine.

-Adam

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