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Search in bibliography
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 1:03 pm
by laup
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.
Re: Search in bibliography
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 3:09 pm
by Jon
How are you searching?
Jon
Sonny Software
Re: Search in bibliography
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 4:25 pm
by laup
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
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 4:35 pm
by Jon
So you're doing a live search.
The search is indexed, apostrophes are ignored.
Did you Rebuild the library? Or Reindex?
Jon
Sonny Software
Re: Search in bibliography
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 5:31 pm
by laup
Yes, I just now rebuilt. Same result.
Re: Search in bibliography
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 6:26 pm
by Jon
Please send me your library.
Jon
Sonny Software
Re: Search in bibliography
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 4:51 pm
by laup
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.