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Bibliography
an application to view, create, modify BibTeX database files under NEXTSTEP.
VERSION 1.5
(20 july 1998)
new in this version:
· citation mode (as \cite{..} or as text) and citationstyle ("\cite{...}" or "\cite{..},\cite{..}" ) are now written into the user's default database
VERSION 1.4
(05 april 1998)
new in this version:
· Emacs-Bindings can now be used in all texts and textfields
· showing of STRINGs in the macro panel is now much much faster
· when saving a file you can choose between alphabetical and chronological order (the save menu changed !)
· when previewing selected entries or saving a file in alphabetical order the crossref-rules of bibtex are respected, which means they are topologically sorted and written at the end of the file
· user defined \cite-commands are saved in the user database
· all connections to bibtex and latex are customizable with editable shells
VERSION 1.3
new in this version:
· the former LaTeX-window is now a panel and has no longer an own preview button. Cmd-Shift L€(or R or H) prepare the selections from the main window.
· the bib.tex file and shells for TeXing or preparing the find path for bibtex are now customizable.
· there is a new Macro/String panel which shows all macros of a bst file or all strings of a bib file
· the find algorithm is now much faster
· the find panel allows AND / OR /NOT operations with formerly found entries
· more carefully check for the availabily of `bibtex' and `latex'
· the selected style is now remembered in the user database
· the bib file parser is now nearer to the original `bibtex' parser
· BUGS: some removed / some (possibly more) installed
VERSION 1.2
new in this version:
· all icons are now LZW±compressed which reduced the total size from 63 kB to 32€kB
· the file-shelf (in the main window) is now horizontally designed, which looks a bit nicer, without holes when a file is removed from the shelf
· you can now choose your favorite shell (used for the shell variable TEXINPUTS) and your favorite editor, Edit or Emacs e.g. (used for citation-dragging)
(see info -> preferences -> general)
· you can format the citation as \cite{ref1} \cite{ref2} ...etc or as \cite{ref1,ref1,...,etc} (see info -> preferences -> citation) and define other \cite-commands. The changes you make in this panel cannot be saved in this version.
· a new menu-button (Edit -> Copy Citation C) copies citations formatted as defined in info -> preferences -> citation into an ASCII-Pasteboard. This is a way to paste citations into an Edit-text.
· all editable texts (the notefield in the inspector panel e.g. but not the text in textfields) have emacs-bindings. These bindings are:
Command Action
Control-B Moves back one character
Control-F Moves forward one character
Alternate-b Moves back one word
Alternate-f Moves forward one word
Control-A Moves to beginning of line
Control-E Moves to end of line
Control-D Deletes next character
Control-H Deletes previous character
Alternate-d Deletes to end of current (or next) word
Alternate-h Deletes to beginning of current (or previous) word
Control-K Deletes forward to end of line
Alternate-< Moves to beginning of text
Alternate-> Moves to end of text
Control-N Moves down one line
Control-P Moves up one line
· selected references in the findpanel can also be selected in the bib-mainwindow
· a new Macro- &String - panel allows to insert the macro/string definitions or their expansion into the inspector panel texts. The macros are taken from the .bst-files that can be reached along the path defined in the shell variable TEXINPUTS. Select a .bst-file in the browser of the Macro...panel and double click to get the macros.
· a special marker 'º' on the right side of a textfield (in the inspector panel) indicates that there are more lines than shown. The text is scrollable.
· special characters in the input field in the find panel are converted into TeX commands before searching
· a new sorting algorithm speeds up the reading of long not yet sorted .bib-files
· wrong entrynames which were corrected during reading the .bib-file are now properly saved
IMPORTANT:
· all textual changes (new entrytexts or updates in the inspector) are also immediately saved in files in your temporary directory /tmp/BIB00xxxx. So nothing is lost if the application crashes (I hope it will not, but who knows)
· if the applcation crashes an error trace is written to the console
VERSION 1.1
Requirements:
· NEXTSTEP 3.1 or higher.
Usage:
see Info/Usage...
what it does:
· reads .bib files (= BibTeX database files)
· creates .bib files
· shows entries of .bib files
· creates new entries
· sorts entries in a .bib file (first PREAMBLEs, then STRINGs, then the rest)
· allows dragging and dropping of entries between .bib files
· allows dragging of citations into Emacs documents
· can show (and print) a LaTeX - preview
· converts .bbl files into .rtf files (without LaTeX)
· converts .bbl files into .html files (without LaTeX)
· has a shelf for often used .bib files
· allows a flexible view of entries
· allows to create new entryfields (as much as you want)
· there is a service `Save to Bibdatabase' which copies selected
text in any application to a Bibliography window
Known problems:
· the rtf and html conversions are very simple
· a help file is under construction
Of course there are a lot of things remaining to be done. Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.
Heinrich Giesen
giesen@informatik.uni-koblenz.de
24. Nov. 1995
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinrich Giesen,
UniversitÙt Koblenz,
Institut för Informatik,
Rheinau 1, Voice: +49 261 9119-416
D-56075 Koblenz Fax: +49 261 9119-497
Germany
NeXT/MIME/Email: giesen@informatik.uni-koblenz.de
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