Marco Bravi wrote:
Dear LyX users,
I have been trying LyX 1.5.0beta1 for some days now. I have one problem
which did not exist in 1.4.x or before with literature citations, using
external bibtex files.
If one author (or any word) is listed in more than one entry of my
literature file (a pretty normal situation), in 1.4.x or above I used
to type the author name or key word in the "Find:" field and repeatedly
click on "next" to search in the whole bibtex file until the
document/citation containing that string/author/word until the desired
one was selected; then I inserted the desired citation.
I see...
With the new citation dialog, there is no "Next" button; in turn, the
typed string is matched automatically in the bibliography record list.
Unfortunately, however, only the key is searched for. This is rather
inconvenient, as the key is often related to the first author name,
while often one looks for one article by the name of another author, or
maybe one word in the title, and would like to select which article he
would like to cite among those satisfying the criterion of containing
the typed string. Therefore, I would like LyX 1.5.0beta1 to search in
the _whole_ bibtex database as LyX did before 1.5.
Is there any way to customise it to change the default behaviour?
Unfortunately no... The new 'find' field searches the _key_ as you type.
Or is this a bug? (If it is, please consider this message as a bug
notification!).
It is not a bug but a regression. At one point we decided that what you
describe is advanced search functionality. IIRC we've planned to add
this search button but maybe not before 1.5.0... I'll bring the matter
to the devel list.
Could you please add a bugzilla entry (bugzilla.lyx.org) for it?
Thanks a lot for all the nice work you have been doing! Regards from
Marco Bravi
Thanks for the report Marco,
Abdel.
