BibDesk - 1.3.2

For use with BibTeX and (la)TeX, BibDesk is a GUI front-end for managing BibTeX databases in their original .bib form. Search, organize, and cite with drag n' drop. Publish bibliographies to the web as RSS XML.


What's new in this version:

* New "Publication Date" column for displaying a composite Month + Year, so we no longer have conflicts with existing Date fields
* Prefix/suffix addition to the Database Find & Replace panel
* Author's display name is now used for the author table and menu
* Can now download URLs to link as local files (drop a remote URL on the local file button or a local file editor field)
* TeX preview now displays a warning badge and log in separate tab when typesetting errors are encountered
* A warning is now displayed if front matter and/or macros are ignored when pasting BibTeX data
* Preliminary support for hCite (microformat) browsing and parsing; requires a hidden default (see bibdesk-users list archives for details)
* Clicking file URL links now sends kAESearchText Apple Event when appropriate
* Document macros are now accessible via AppleScript
* Spotlight cache files now get kMDItemCreator and kMDItemContentCreationDate; Read status is included even as three-state field
* Field names can be localized, if anyone ever localizes BibDesk
* Spotlight cache files now get custom icons by default
* New window for matching orphaned (or other) files with bibliography items, using SearchKit (see Window menu)
* Author table column now sorts more correctly (based on multiple authors instead of the first author's last name)
* Items in Window menu are now organized by document
* Stale TeX intermediate files are removed between previews
* Added workaround for editor beachball when the Spotlight database is corrupted
* Saving from AppleScript no longer uses a stale encoding value
* Fixed some issues with the editor's rating buttons, and check range when change rating with arrow keys
* Fixed leaks in release notes viewing, text import sheet
* WebKit plugins are enabled again, in hopes that the losers at Adobe have fixed the crashes their plugins caused
* Filename display cells break text in the middle instead of the tail
* Numeric stack traces are used if atos isn't installed (part of developer tools)
* Report errors for missing citekey and type instead of crashing
* Formatter is now used correctly for add/remove field sheets
* Cite keys from non-BibTeX sources are now generated when they are incorporated into a document, so conflicts can be resolved correctly
* Host info is displayed in exception viewer, so we know how to run atos on the stack trace
* Help on Junior name splitting was incorrect (bug #1649434)
* Optionally allow editing default BibTeX types and fields; although we think this is a bad idea, we're tired of the requests
* Type editor allows dragging between required and optional fields when the type is editable
* Set undo action name when changing BibTeX string of a field via AppleScript
* Don't show cite key warnings for external items
* Cite key and Local-Url fields are ignored when comparing external items to those already in the file (for import button)
* Support selection from .aux files using non-standard bibliography styles (e.g. harvard); guess citation command from the file
* Handle splitview resizing internally, since Apple's code has rounding errors
* Fixed a potential crash when saving (incorrect error class)
* Fixed an autorelease memory smasher introduced in 1.3.0 that was causing random crashes (thanks to Nathan Paxton for a reproducible test case)
* Finally fixed the mysterious objectAtIndex: exception introduced in 1.3.0 (thanks to Alex Martsinkovsky for providing steps to reproduce this)
* Search groups can now be renamed (bug #1663856)
* Table columns now have minimum width of 16


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