What if you manually set the category property of each reference to a short title for the reference? The category appears in the agenda and you can use it as a sort strategy.
-- Darlan At Mon, 14 May 2012 09:42:23 +0200, "G. Martin Butz" <b...@sym.net> wrote: > > Hallo to all, > > as I have quite a few bibliographic references scattered around several > files, I build myself a custom agenda view, gathering all references > (tagged with "bib") using the column view. > > (setq org-agenda-custom-commands > '(("l" "Literaturliste" tags "Bib" > ((org-agenda-remove-tags t) > (org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%80ITEM %20FILE") > (org-agenda-view-columns-initially t)) > (org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(alpha-up)) > (org-agenda-compact-blocks t)) > )) > > I wonder, if it is possible to get an alphabetically sorted list of all > entries without having them displayed filewise. Right now my agenda view > displayes the entries like: > > a_item | x.org > m_item | x.org > b_item | y.org > n_item | y.org > aso. > > What I would like is the following > > a_item | x.org > b_item | y.org > m_item | x.org > n_item | y.org > aso. > > Or - if this is not possible - can I at least show a short version of > the file name (like in the ordinary agenda view)? Right now the column > "file" displays the full file path which I do not need. > > Can anybody help? > > Many thanks in advance > Martin > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > | G. Martin Butz, m...@mkblog.org, 0421 98749324, www.mkblog.org | > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >