Re: [Ebib-users] Ebib 1.5.2 released; git repository

[Thomas A. S. <tho...@un...>]

Hi Joost,

first: thanks so much. I absolutely love the new release. The manual  
looks gorgeous, virtual databases are fabulous, and the possibility to  
customize the latex cite commands is wonderful for me (I use ConTeXt  
and need a somewhat different style). I use ebib regularly to insert  
references into my TeX files; it is the most convenient and fastest  
thing out there.

I'm still not quite happy with its editing functionalities. Using it  
on a quite big database (more than 1000 entries), two things struck  
me; one is inconvenient, the other a bug, I think:

1. When ebib has trouble parsing a database, it simply gives up - no  
error code, no hint, it just sits there. Is it feasible to provide  
some sort of feedback that something went wrong? I'm not asking for  
helpful error codes (I'm aware that this would demand lots of work),  
but at least some message would be nice.

2. ebib is very sensitive to unbalanced braces in any field. Some of  
my entries contain words in Greek Beta code. Here is an example:

@Article{	  harderzwei,
   annote	= {Examen de l'antith{\`e}se du distique c{\'e}l{\`e}bre:
		  EIMI D EGW... E)PISTA/MENOS.},
   author	= {Harder, Richard},
   journal	= {Hermes},
   pages		= {381--384},
   title		= {Zwei Zeilen von Archilochos},
   volume	= 80,
   year		= 1952
}

ebib chokes on the unbalanced closing parenthesis in line 3; but its  
behavior is dangerous: it just stops parsing the entry at this point  
and quietly forgets the rest. When I save the database in ebib, I get  
this:


@article{harderzwei,
	annote = {Examen de l'antith{\`e}se du distique c{\'e}l{\`e}bre: EIMI  
D  EGW... E)PISTA/MENOS.
}

After which my database is of course broken for this entry. Can this  
be fixed?

Thanks for your great work, and best wishes

Thomas


On Oct 22, 2007, at 10:52 PM, Joost Kremers wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've just uploaded Ebib version 1.5.2 to the Sourceforge servers. New
> features in this version:
>
> - Ebib now allows multiple bib-files in the \bibliography command of a
>  LaTeX file. (I never knew BibTeX allows this...)
>
> - It is now possible to push entries from the index buffer to a LaTeX
>  buffer. With the key 'p', you're asked for a buffer, after which the
>  current entry is added to this buffer, together with a cite- 
> command. (The
>  cite commands used are the same ones used for ebib-insert-bibtex- 
> key. The
>  default is \cite{<key>}.) The default buffer to push entries to is  
> the
>  one you called Ebib from.
>
>  Note: the key 'p' used to edit the @preamble. It seemed to make more
>  sense to use it for pushing entries instead. The preamble can now be
>  edited with 'r'.
>
> - If you've put a value in the crossref field of an entry, Ebib now  
> shows
>  which values the entry inherits from the cross-referenced entty.
>
> - The multiline edit buffer produces a warning when there are  
> unbalanced
>  braces in the text.
>
> - Ebib now has an option to gracefully handle multiple identical  
> fields in
>  BibTeX entries (i.e. multiple 'keywords' fields).
>
> I've set up a public git repository for Ebib at
> <http://repo.or.cz/w/ebib.git>. If you want, you can get the latest  
> sources
> from there.
>
> Have fun!
>
> Joost
>
>
>
> -- 
> Joost Kremers
> Life has its moments
>
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