My bibliography searches don't pick up all instances of an author whose name is O'Mahony. Perhaps there is a setting somewhere affecting the treatment of apostrophes? Or some other fixable problem?
I just did a test with a fake entry, also involving an apostrophe. Same problem.
Search in bibliography
Re: Search in bibliography
How are you searching?
Jon
Sonny Software
Jon
Sonny Software
Re: Search in bibliography
Different ways. Just now, to assure that I was telling the truth, I looked at the list of all items in the library and searched for O'Mahony. Up popped two records, in both of which I was first author and O'Mahony was the second author. Many items did NOT show up, including many in which she is a co-editor. I even moused over the search box and set it for and all fields. Nothing changed.
Re: Search in bibliography
So you're doing a live search.
The search is indexed, apostrophes are ignored.
Did you Rebuild the library? Or Reindex?
Jon
Sonny Software
The search is indexed, apostrophes are ignored.
Did you Rebuild the library? Or Reindex?
Jon
Sonny Software
Re: Search in bibliography
Yes, I just now rebuilt. Same result.
Re: Search in bibliography
Please send me your library.
Jon
Sonny Software
Jon
Sonny Software
Re: Search in bibliography
Jon cleared up the problem. He pointed out that Mac OS has a system preferences setting, under Keyboard/Text, which has a toggle for "Use smart quotes and dashes." The default is "on." This means that when I entered a new in Bookends for O'Mahony, it went in with a curly, smart, non-straight apostrophe. That was not showing up in a search. After changing the setting in System Preferences and restarting, I changed all my references with O'*** in the data base. Initially, I used Global Change, but Jon pointed out that Term Lists can be used a bit more efficiently.
A fairly exotic problem, but it's solved. Whew.
A fairly exotic problem, but it's solved. Whew.