[Bibdesk-announce] BibDesk 0.97 is available

[Adam R. M. <ama...@ma...>]

The BibDesk team is pleased to announce that version 0.97 is available=20=

for download from <http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/>.  There are some=20
major internal changes in this version (we believe them to be=20
improvements), along with some great new features.  Among these are=20
citekey generation with a user-customizable format (and BibDesk  can=20
even set the citekey automatically when you've entered enough=20
information in the fields), improved character conversion, and much=20
improved speed and memory consumption.

A complete list of new features and bugfixes is included below, just to=20=

prove that we haven't been slacking for the last month or so since=20
0.96.2 (see also=20
http://michael-mccracken.net/blog/blosxom.pl/2004/12/09#SLOC).

Due to the number of changes, it is likely that new bugs have been=20
introduced; therefore, back up your data often!  If you find a bug,=20
please report it at=20
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=3D61487&atid=3D497423> with=20
detailed steps to reproduce the problem, expected results, and actual=20
results.


** New Features **

   =95  Automatic generation of custom citekey formats; see the=20
preferences and online help for details.  Many thanks to Christiaan=20
Hofman for this feature!  BibDesk can now enter a citekey automatically=20=

when it has enough info, or you can use the "Generate" button to enter=20=

a key.  RIS imports now use this automatically.
   =95  Support for converting arbitrary Unicode accented characters =
into=20
TeX (the character conversion code was rewritten to be faster, as=20
well).
   =95  Searchfield now recognizes AND and OR operators in searching, =
and=20
accented characters are treated as plain characters in searches
   =95  Add support for HTML to LaTeX conversion in RIS import.  This=20
primarily benefits users of Compendex and other databases which put=20
HTML in their RIS files.
   =95  More RIS and Medline publication types should be recognized
   =95  Crash reporter feature added, thanks to Infinite Loop
   =95  On OS X 10.3 and greater, users can reinstall the autocompletion=20=

plugin from the autocompletion preferences to have "\ref{"=20
autocompletion as well as "\cite" autocompletion (search for=20
autocompletion in the online help to see details).
   =95  Added a Scripts menu for user-supplied AppleScripts

** Bugfixes **

  =95  Profiling and optimizing code resulted in significant speed=20
increases in opening/saving files
  =95  'View as text' in BibEditor now works for local-urls with spaces =
in=20
the paths
  =95  Column widths are now saved properly
  =95  Capitalize BibTeX fields when adding in BibEditor, in order to=20
avoid potential conflicts
  =95  Some character conversions (Bookends import improved)
  =95  Opening MacRoman files as UTF8 won't cause a crash anymore
  =95  BibEditor tab-keyloop (hopefully fixed for real this time)
  =95  Updated TeX template
  =95  Fix for displaying incorrect month in types like inbook that =
don't=20
have a month field by default
  =95  Add display of chapter title and title together in table for =
inbook=20
types
  =95  More forgiving way of asking to display cite key in table/search=20=

field/sorting
  =95  Bug #1056268, allow tableview selection for dragging when the=20
table's window is in the background
  =95  Bug #1056554, which appears to be an AppKit bug; dragging many=20
publications raised an exception
  =95  Bug #1056893, autogenerated citekeys can have garbage
  =95  Bug #1059514, should be able to drag text clippings with BibTeX=20=

directly to BibDesk
  =95  Bug #1060388, sorting by cite key broken
  =95  Bug #1067752, no undo for drag-and-drop or pasting
  =95  Bug #1066995, 10.3-only method used for a 10.2-only warning
  =95  Bug #1056261, file path should always be URL encoded
  =95  Only allow the PDF preview to draw on the main thread
  =95  Can now drag BibTeX entries between windows in BibDesk, =
regardless=20
of the copy/paste prefs
  =95  Control memory usage on RIS imports using a local autorelease =
pool
  =95  The RIS importer now only uses the four-digit year for the BibTeX=20=

"Year" field, and strips the month
  =95  The RIS importer will check for duplicate authors in some broken=20=

RIS files (e.g. Scopus RIS)
  =95  Major memory leaks were found and fixed
  =95  Bug #1063105, numbered month and year wrong in date
  =95  Fixed an AppleScript bug with the make command
  =95  Bug #818936, autocompletion in the BibEditor doesn't respect=20
dividers (e.g. "and" for authors)
  =95  Maintain item selection after sorting, and scroll to the selected=20=

item after sorting
  =95  Added some notification and undo in AppleScript
  =95  Allow setting BibTeX string in AppleScript only at initialization
  =95  Added new 'proxy' objects BibField to access arbitrary fields =
from=20
AppleScript
  =95  Force capitalization for field names in AppleScript for internal=20=

consistency's sake
  =95  Moved setting of some undo action name to controller layer to get=20=

correct action name in redo menu item
  =95  BibEditor now orders the fields in the form in the following way:
      1. Required fields in the order they are found in the=20
Typeinfo.plist file.
      2. Optional fields in the order ""
      3. Any other fields, in alphabetical order.
  =95  Allow for multiple editors in RIS imports
  =95  Bug #1080931, data loss when adding a new field