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Have re-downloaded v13.1.5 and the issue seems to be resolved. Thanks.

BE 13.1.5, OS 10.14.2 I normally use Basic view, with the sidebar open and in 'edit reference' layout. I've notice that after editing (some?) field, e.g. Authors, if I then click into another field (say Keywords) that instead of the link target taking focus, the focus is incorrectly set onto the mai...

BE v13.1.5, OS 10.14.1 Thanks for v13.1.5, though I think it broke something. I generally use BE with the right pane open and the data edit fields on display. Since I upgraded (yesterday?). After editing a field, when I click on a different field instead of focus moving it to the clicked filed, the ...

Thanks. I'll give that a try. Meanwhile, using BBEdit (or a grep-replace capable text editor), you can do: Find: , (single comma) Replace: }\n\\cite{ (close curly bracket, line return, (escaped) backslash, 'cite', open curly bracket. Then do 'replace all'. Works like a charm. Also tested your format...

Jon, Thanks both work. For later readers, in the first case I used a Smart Group with 2 arguments: 1. Text / field is not empty / User1 2. not / Text / characters/ : / User1 I've also managed to nicely adapt the SQL query to use: user1 NOT REGEX ':\d{4}:' Which is a last check my keys are in form 'n...

Sadly, the suggested code returns all items. I only want those that lack a colon. I'm less worried about the number of colons or whether User1 has no value. The regex is correct - we both use the same. However if I substitute an 'a' for the colon I still don't get all notes where the key lacks an 'a...

Thanks. I guess I can use BBEdit and some regex for now.

Is there a way to select lots of items in the main window list and have each item's citation paste as a separate citation? Currently they are all run together. As I was trying to transfer some 50+ items, I'd prefer to avoid doing 50 x individual copy/paste operations.

I checked the reference cited in the manual ( http://userguide.icu-project.org/strings/regexp ) and this SQL search should return me only those items where user1 (the bibtex key) does not contain a colon: (user1 REGEX '[^:]') Instead it returns all in-scope items.In fact testing further, any test wi...

Understood. Many thanks.

Mark

Is it possible to make the term lists (most usefully for authors) scoped to the selected group. It seems to default to whole database scope and the list windows 'filter' is an in-list string match. I'm interested in seeing the per-author record count for a group corresponding to my current 'thesis' ...

Quite understand, time to shift to (Apple) cloud. I do get the point about collisions and am careful that I only open the doc in one Mac at a time, even if only because I have a single licence. Many thanks.

In BE Prefs/BiBTeX I have all 3 tick-boxes set in the right column. I presume it is the second one that does escaping. Oddly, despite that, in both the formatted preview and the Format manager for Bibtex, no encoding of diacriticals occurs. I see: address = {Montréal, Québec, Canada Republic and Can...

As it happens, I have been using Dropbox for the bdb file for 3-4 years now without any trouble. I could move it to the (Apple) cloud though I'd stayed away from it as it seemed very flakey compared to Dropbox.

Apologies, that's quite right, I'd got my wires crossed while trying to fix the issue of having a properly working 'In Proceedings' type. Now I've set it locally in prefs in both Macs, the database now seems to show data types correctly.