[OS X TeX] BibDesk 0.97 is available

[Adam R. Maxwell]

The BibDesk team is pleased to announce that version 0.97 is available 
for download from <http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/>.  There are some 
major internal changes in this version (we believe them to be 
improvements), along with some great new features.  Among these are 
citekey generation with a user-customizable format (and BibDesk  can 
even set the citekey automatically when you've entered enough 
information in the fields), improved character conversion, and much 
improved speed and memory consumption.

A complete list of new features and bugfixes is included below, just to 
prove that we haven't been slacking for the last month or so since 
0.96.2 (see also 
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 
introduced; therefore, back up your data often!  If you find a bug, 
please report it at 
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=61487&atid=497423> with 
detailed steps to reproduce the problem, expected results, and actual 
results.


** New Features **

   •  Automatic generation of custom citekey formats; see the 
preferences and online help for details.  Many thanks to Christiaan 
Hofman for this feature!  BibDesk can now enter a citekey automatically 
when it has enough info, or you can use the "Generate" button to enter 
a key.  RIS imports now use this automatically.
   •  Support for converting arbitrary Unicode accented characters into 
TeX (the character conversion code was rewritten to be faster, as 
well).
   •  Searchfield now recognizes AND and OR operators in searching, and 
accented characters are treated as plain characters in searches
   •  Add support for HTML to LaTeX conversion in RIS import.  This 
primarily benefits users of Compendex and other databases which put 
HTML in their RIS files.
   •  More RIS and Medline publication types should be recognized
   •  Crash reporter feature added, thanks to Infinite Loop
   •  On OS X 10.3 and greater, users can reinstall the autocompletion 
plugin from the autocompletion preferences to have "\ref{" 
autocompletion as well as "\cite" autocompletion (search for 
autocompletion in the online help to see details).
   •  Added a Scripts menu for user-supplied AppleScripts

** Bugfixes **

  •  Profiling and optimizing code resulted in significant speed 
increases in opening/saving files
  •  'View as text' in BibEditor now works for local-urls with spaces in 
the paths
  •  Column widths are now saved properly
  •  Capitalize BibTeX fields when adding in BibEditor, in order to 
avoid potential conflicts
  •  Some character conversions (Bookends import improved)
  •  Opening MacRoman files as UTF8 won't cause a crash anymore
  •  BibEditor tab-keyloop (hopefully fixed for real this time)
  •  Updated TeX template
  •  Fix for displaying incorrect month in types like inbook that don't 
have a month field by default
  •  Add display of chapter title and title together in table for inbook 
types
  •  More forgiving way of asking to display cite key in table/search 
field/sorting
  •  Bug #1056268, allow tableview selection for dragging when the 
table's window is in the background
  •  Bug #1056554, which appears to be an AppKit bug; dragging many 
publications raised an exception
  •  Bug #1056893, autogenerated citekeys can have garbage
  •  Bug #1059514, should be able to drag text clippings with BibTeX 
directly to BibDesk
  •  Bug #1060388, sorting by cite key broken
  •  Bug #1067752, no undo for drag-and-drop or pasting
  •  Bug #1066995, 10.3-only method used for a 10.2-only warning
  •  Bug #1056261, file path should always be URL encoded
  •  Only allow the PDF preview to draw on the main thread
  •  Can now drag BibTeX entries between windows in BibDesk, regardless 
of the copy/paste prefs
  •  Control memory usage on RIS imports using a local autorelease pool
  •  The RIS importer now only uses the four-digit year for the BibTeX 
"Year" field, and strips the month
  •  The RIS importer will check for duplicate authors in some broken 
RIS files (e.g. Scopus RIS)
  •  Major memory leaks were found and fixed
  •  Bug #1063105, numbered month and year wrong in date
  •  Fixed an AppleScript bug with the make command
  •  Bug #818936, autocompletion in the BibEditor doesn't respect 
dividers (e.g. "and" for authors)
  •  Maintain item selection after sorting, and scroll to the selected 
item after sorting
  •  Added some notification and undo in AppleScript
  •  Allow setting BibTeX string in AppleScript only at initialization
  •  Added new 'proxy' objects BibField to access arbitrary fields from 
AppleScript
  •  Force capitalization for field names in AppleScript for internal 
consistency's sake
  •  Moved setting of some undo action name to controller layer to get 
correct action name in redo menu item
  •  BibEditor now orders the fields in the form in the following way:
      1. Required fields in the order they are found in the 
Typeinfo.plist file.
      2. Optional fields in the order ""
      3. Any other fields, in alphabetical order.
  •  Allow for multiple editors in RIS imports
  •  Bug #1080931, data loss when adding a new field
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