Sorting

Sixpack can sort the database according to fields. There are a couple of ways to achieve this. You can click on the 2nd and 3rd buttons containing pictures from from the right. These have the following effect:

The button that looks like a telephone book

will sort by author.

The button that looks like a book from a library

will sort by title.

More searches can be accessed from the Edit menu: Edit->Sort by Author/Title/Journal/Year.

To sort by other fields, you have to access the command line. Do this by opening the history window, by clicking on the history button

or toggling the 'Display->History Window' menu. Then enter the command 'sort ad', i.e. sort followed by the code of the field to sort by, and press enter.

Sorting by multiple fields

The database is sorted starting from the last sort. So, in order to sort by multiple fields, simply do multiple sorts starting from the least significant one. Thus, to sort by year, and within a year by author, do:

sort author
  

and then

sort year
  

(This doesn't currently work... very sad!).