CHANGELOG for Bibi - Bibtex Editor  (c) Ute Platzer 2002-2006

Version 2.0.1

-- there are not so many parse exceptions any more - unrecognized entry types 
	are automatically marked as "unknown" instead of throwing an exception.

Version 2.0 beta

-- Bibi uses the javabib bibtex parser written by Johannes Henkel (GPL) 
	http://www.jhenkel.de/ which is much better than my hand-written
	one and can read much more files.
	
-- exception handling more user friendly: dialog is shown and email to
   developer is send

-- renamed packages, separated bibi from remaining ujap	stuff, sorted things
	-> now it's a sourceforge project!

-- adapt the parser to be more flexible with the position of line-breaks 
   in the .bib files. 

Version 1.6.1

-- the content of the search fields combobox can now be defined in a file
   (the file name can be given in the preferences, example file is
   data/bibi-search.dat)

-- support for string macro definitions in .bib files (read, write, and edit)

Version 1.6

-- bibi got an Icon!

-- You can paste bibtex entries now, like you can paste pubmed entries

-- entries can be cloned to provide citations for several chapters from
   the same book, for example

-- macro replacement is performed *before* the pubmed entry is parsed
   -> makes it more useful

-- view (key/author/title-list) can now be changed via view menu and
   no longer via the toolbar

-- title- and author-list-view have changed orientation of the
   splitpane in the entry editor: list above, and selected entry below

-- icon for "check bibtex file" different from icon for "preferences"

-- improved documentation

-- frame remebers size if you start it again later

-- long text in the table is shown as tooltip

Version 1.5

-- Field names can be selected via combobox in the table (new!),
   or can be entered directly as before.

-- toolbar button to copy entry key to clipboard (to paste it into your tex
   document. key is copied to clipboard (for win&linux) and selection (linux
   only). 

-- different views for the list of entries: key (default), authors, and titles
   (can be cahnged via combobox in toolbar)

-- you can define default replacements to be applied on pubmed authors and
   titles, e.g. to replace "Caenorhabditis elegans" by the tex macro "\cele"
   whenever pasting a pubmed entry

-- generate key button to create a key for the selected entry

-- if a new key is generated for the current entry, this is changed in the
   textfield that displays the key (but not yet in the list)

-- window menu to select a bibtex file via the menu (unfortunately the selected
   window's titlebar is not visibly marked as such)

-- proper dialog for generate keys (Radio buttons)

Version 1.5 RC 2

-- all actions have nice icons in the toolbar

-- title of merge-result window is more informative

Version 1.5 RC 1

-- [no bugfixes]

-- check and correct bibtex files for author and pages syntax

Version 1.5 beta

-- icon for "new entry from pubmed"

-- more help

-- deal with volume and numbers that are multiple numbers: 4-5 
   (while parsing Pubmed entries)

-- PMID is read and stored in a field when parsing pubmed entries. 

-- abbreviated month names from pubmed entries are extended to full names

-- if filename is given as command-line argument, that file is loaded
   immediately.

-- for new pubmed entries, pages are automatically written fully, i.e. 
   '1234-41' is converted to '1234--1241'

Version 1.4

-- okay buttons with uniform naming: OK

-- for new pubmed entries, pages are automatically provided with two dashes:
   24--29 to conform to bibtex/latex syntax

-- Version for German language (system locale) now available.

-- generate keys for all entries works now if keys are already present (i.e. 
   it really deletes the old keys before generating new ones)

-- nice icons in the menus, plus some shortcut keys and mnemonics.

-- use new cello JLoadSaveFrame/ApplicationFrame concept -> ToolBar + 
   StatusBar are there.

-- use java 1.4 logging (in cello.jar)

-- use resource bundles for internationalization

Version 1.3

-- extra whitespace within and at beginning/end of field values (e.g. abstract 
   text) is removed automatically; all line breaks are replaced by space. 

-- no "magic word" for selection

-- automatic keys use lowercase letters to distinguish entries:
   Author_et_al_2002a, Author_et_al_2002b, ... 

-- search result: title bar displays query string

-- search is case-insensitive (optional)

-- automatically select new entries (this is really a change in the 
   CellO library)

-- automatically generate keys for "new entry from pubmed"

-- title of pubmed entries may contain () brackets.

-- rudimentary help

-- parse authors within pubmed entries and convert them to bibtex-accepted
   format

-- generate keys: dont use "et al" for a single author

-- debug output for clicks on entrytable was removed

Version 1.2

-- Generate Keys can be cancelled

-- field contents in .bib files are always surrounded by {curly brackets}

-- removing duplicates can be cancelled

-- Menu items for Printing have been removed (did nothing, after all)

-- File menu "load" item renamed to "open"

-- After creating a new Entry witht the "new" button, that entry is selected. 
   TODO: also select the new entry if it's created using the
   Action-New-From Template or -from Pubmed method.  

-- if no duplicates were found, only a short message is displayed
   rather than creating a new window with all entries.

-- TextField for the key of the entry got a label

-- Search: select fields to search via a combobox. 
   TODO: allow searching of more than one field. 

-- exported xml file format was modified to allow using an
   xslt-stylesheet for creating nice html pages for the
   references. For the stylesheet, see http://www.authopilot.com

-- command line tool to transform .bib files into .xml files suitable for
   transformation with the authopilot xslt-stylesheet (bib2xml). 

-- most actions now open a messagebox if you try to use them without
   having a bibtex file loaded (or a frame selected), rather than
   throwing exceptions. 

-- if you try to add two empty fields (two fields with the same name),
   a messagebox is displayed to inform you this is not allowed (rather
   than doing nothing and letting the user wonder what's going on). 

-- new feature: selection of specific entries from a file (the magic
   word  is "please", of course -- this is an internal joke). 

Version 1.1

-- entries can be searched for specific strings, e.g. author names or
   keywords.