[Refdb-users] ANN: refdb-0.9.8-pre9 available
Status: Beta
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From: Markus H. <mar...@mh...> - 2006-11-30 21:53:05
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Hi all, we're approaching the next release 0.9.8 which should provide a couple of useful enhancements to the general public. I've uploaded a prerelease which is supposed to be the last one before 0.9.8, unless there are any problems with this prerelease. In order to avoid the (almost customary) build problems on platforms other than FreeBSD, I've set up a SuSE linux test box (SuSE because we already have very active Debian and Mandriva users on board). I didn't run into any problems on that system yet. The prerelease was built from subversion revision 250 and is available right here: http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/refdb-latest.tar.gz I've appended the improvements and fixed bugs since 0.9.7 below. Please report any problems to the list to make 0.9.8 a smooth experience. regards, Markus Bugfixes: - queries for UR and L1-L4 fields now work again - en2ris now properly imports the start and end page information from newer EndNote versions - using multiple databases in LaTeX documents now works again properly - bibtex output is now properly escaped - getref now honours backslash-escaped apostrophes in query strings - strings extending the length of limited size fields in t_refdb are now properly truncated during data import - correctly rollback if adding RIS data fails - exclusive queries (e.g. :UR:!~"http") now work as expected for links (UR, L1-L4, authors, and keywords - refdbd now modifies citation keys containing the string "-ID" as this may cause problems when creating bibliographies. "-ID" will be replaced with "_ID" to avoid problems. - if an iconv error occurs during data import, refdbd now returns a meaningful error message. Improvements: - the refdba:listuser command now checks for the required database argument - improved manpage layout by using new DocBook stylesheet capabilities when available, and workarounds for older stylesheet versions - configure now simplifies the task of building modularized RefDB packages. You can now build server, clients, and doc packages separately. Additionally, you can switch off building docs and manpages to build the RefDB binaries from the SVN sourceson systems without an XML/DocBook toolchaiin - the code that generates citation keys from author names was improved by using iconv to transliterate foreign characters. - the default setup now uses UTF-8 as the default input, storage, and output encoding. - the wrapper script bib2ris-utf8 was added to simplify postprocessing of the bib2ris output with the new refdb_latex2uft8txt script. The latter converts foreign characters to their UTF-8 equivalents and strips off other LaTeX commands. - personal reference lists are now implemented on top of extended notes. This means in particular that each user can maintain an unlimited number of reference lists - various fixes to the PHP web interface - use an improved bibtex citation format (\cite{dbname:citekey}) - now supports citation key based citation formats in addition to author/year and numeric - improved citation formats handle more reference types - refdbd can now install and upgrade the main database without external tools. See the file UPGRADING and the refdbd man page for further information. - refdb-init now uses these new refdbd capabilities to simplify the initial setup. - refdbd can also be run to check the database connection and to retrieve the database version. This is mainly useful for package/ports builders. - the help messages of the binaries now show the subversion revision they were built from. This makes it easier to track down bugs to specific builds. - refdbd can now run from a single main+reference database to allow the installation on cheap web space with access to a single MySQL database. - RefDB now provides frequency data for various statistical purposes. The get{au|ed|as|kw|jo|jf|j1|j2} commands allow to display the absolute number of references that use the particular item, or a relative number between 0 and 10 - The xhtml output of getref and checkref now contain frequency data. If you view the output with a new optional stylesheet, the authors, journal names, and keywords will be displayed according to their frequency in terms of font size and colour, similar to the tag clouds in services like del.icio.us. - getref and get{au|ed|as|kw|jo|jf|j1|j2} now support a new option -N limit[:offset] to cut down on the number of returned datasets. This feature can be conveniently used to loop over the result set in e.g. increments of 5 or 10, a feature most useful for graphical frontends. -- Markus Hoenicka mar...@ca... (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de |