Searching multiple fields

I've no doubt missed something in the manual, but I'll ask anyway. RIS
uses several fields to catalogue conceptually similar but
bibliographically different information: e.g. analytic titles vs. book
titles, vs. series titles, or analytic/monographic authors vs. editors
vs. series editors. From a user's perspective, however, one often wants
simply to find "an author" without necessarily knowing, remembering, or
even caring whether that author was an analytic or monographic author,
or some kind of editor.

Reading over the manual and tutorial, I can see how one can combine
searches for different terms on different fields (e.g. :AU:~^Miller
and :YR:>1989), and search for combinations of terms on a single field
(e.g. :AU:='& ^Doe ^Jones'). But I'm not sure how to search for a single
term in a range of conceptually similar fields (e.g. is I want to search
for Jones on AU, A1, A2, and A3; or "Beowulf" on any kind of title). I
can see how could construct a query by repeating the term
(e.g. :AU:~Jones and :A1:~Jones and :A2:~Jones and :A3:~Jones). But I
wonder if there is a method that would allow one to enter the term once
and indicate it is spread across a number of fields.

I suppose one could build a script for it (e.g. asking for a name,
defining a variable, and then replacing the variable in a pre-built
command like this: :AU:~$name and :A1:~$name and :A2:~$name and :A3:~
$name. Is there a native system though?

-d


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