Upgrade Storage[MLZ] Publishers and places auto-completion
I rely on MLZ more and more extensively in my work and I find it a great tool. I work with Chinese, Western, Russian and Japanese literature and prepare my publications predominantly in English and Russian. Therefore ideally my entries contain the variant fields for English and Russian. It is a bit time-consuming to enter them all, but it pays back when you can generate bibliography instantly and beautifully in your documents.
However, there is a small problem I am experiencing in my setup. Although I realise that nothing can be helped when I enter book titles and authors' names three times in different scripts, it is quite frustrating to do it over and over again with Places and Publishers which tend to be quite repetitive. It takes about a minute to fill in these fields, and this is the minute during which I do very repetitive work. I wonder if there could be a way to introduce some kind of multi-lingual auto-completion (auto-population) in MLZ that would complete the fields in several linguistic variants simultaneously? That would be a wonderful time-saver and would increase the usefulness of MLZ even more!
However, there is a small problem I am experiencing in my setup. Although I realise that nothing can be helped when I enter book titles and authors' names three times in different scripts, it is quite frustrating to do it over and over again with Places and Publishers which tend to be quite repetitive. It takes about a minute to fill in these fields, and this is the minute during which I do very repetitive work. I wonder if there could be a way to introduce some kind of multi-lingual auto-completion (auto-population) in MLZ that would complete the fields in several linguistic variants simultaneously? That would be a wonderful time-saver and would increase the usefulness of MLZ even more!
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fbennettThat's a very nice idea. It will take awhile before I can get to it, but I've worked with auto-complete before, for the Jurisdiction and Court fields. The would certainly save a lot of time.