Bibfilex Changelog

What's new in Bibfilex 1.2.8

Oct 21, 2016
  • Better MacOS packaging and shortcuts.
  • The menu item "Copy formatted citation" has been removed from the Windows version since it cannot work properly.
  • Bugs fixing.

New in Bibfilex 1.2.7 (Jun 23, 2016)

  • Added GPG encryption for GNU/Linux version of Bibfilex.
  • Better look for Windows and OS X installations.
  • Bugs fixing;

New in Bibfilex 1.2.6 (Oct 5, 2015)

  • New functionality to check for double items in the file in use (see menu item "Tools - Check for double items...")
  • If the sort field is "ID Item", when a file is opened, the last item is selected
  • The shortcut "Ctrl + N" creates a new article
  • The smart filter, if the selected field is "author", will select all the items that contain the text to be searched, and not just that begin with it
  • The field of the smart filter is remembered by the software
  • In the "Abstract" and "Review" fields the shortcut "Ctrl + Shift + Q" inserts the \cite command along with the bibtex key of the current item; if this will be changed, it will be possibly updated also in these fields
  • The autocompletion is activated also by "Ctrl + Shift + Space bar", useful for OS X users
  • Bugs fixing

New in Bibfilex 1.2.5 (Oct 27, 2014)

  • Possibility to enter two pages references in the postnote separated by a pipe; the first one is printed after the title (for instance, to indicate the number of a document or of an old text) while the second one is printed at the end of the citation.
  • Zoom in the abstract and review fields with Ctrl + mouse wheel.
  • Bugs fixing.

New in Bibfilex 1.2.4 (Sep 3, 2014)

  • "Return" on items grid activate the editor and move the cursor at the end of the text.

New in Bibfilex 1.2.3 (Aug 28, 2014)

  • Possibility to add and remove one or more keywords in a drop down list below the keyword filter to recall them more easily.
  • Possibility to include in the BibTex key the family names of all the authors of an item.
  • Recreate the BibTex keys of all the items of the file in use or only the filtered ones.
  • Possibility to store one or more keywords in memory with "Ctrl + Shift + E", and to insert or to remove it within an item with "Ctrl + E".
  • Menu item to copy the file in use along with possible attachment directory in another location.
  • Shortcut "Ctrl + Shift + H" to remove single CR in Abstract and Review fields (only empty lines are left unchanged), to clean texts pasted from a pdf or the web.

New in Bibfilex 1.2.2 (Aug 22, 2014)

  • New bibtex key creation system, which supports also free text inside the key
  • Possibility to determine where the title should be shortened with an asterisk (obviously, it will not be exported in any Biblatex file)
  • Author and title mention above the compilation area do not report possible LaTex formatting commands within the title (e.g. \emph{}, etc.)
  • "Idem" indication for bookauthor that is the same of the author (e.g. for an assay within a collection of assays of the same author)
  • Visible title of the loaded citation pattern
  • Minor improvements and bugs fixing

New in Bibfilex 1.2.1 (Aug 17, 2014)

  • Added “ibidem” indication in the citation.
  • Importation of possible attachments from a Biblatex file, if the “file” field is in JabRef format or the like.
  • Bugs fixing.

New in Bibfilex 1.2.0 (Aug 8, 2014)

  • Added importation and exportation from a Bibfilex file to another, along with possible attachments.
  • Added "Idem" indication in the citations.
  • Added automatic conversion of files with Pandoc (it must be installed in the system in use).
  • Many bugs fixed.

New in Bibfilex 1.1.0 (Jul 28, 2014)

  • Improved the citations pattern.
  • Added more options to create citations.
  • Author and title are shown also in a label just over the fields grids.

New in Bibfilex 1.0.0 (Jul 22, 2014)

  • The function to locate an item in the main form has been changed with a filter function on a single field
  • Possibility to filter the items from the main form on more that one keyword at a time
  • Forms to insert easily special characters and keywords
  • BibTex keys may be inserted in lower case
  • Added bookmarks
  • Added crossref field along with the possibility to copy the content of some fields from the referenced item
  • New icons and look
  • Improvements in the "Replace citations..." procedure and in BibTex key creation
  • Bugs fixing

New in Bibfilex 0.1.7 (Jul 22, 2014)

  • "Copy plain citation" and "Copy formatted citation" copy in the clipboard the citations of all the selected items, if multi-selection is activated
  • Improved importation procedure, to import BibTex files exported from Mendely (load and save the file with JabRef and then import in Bibfilex if there are carriage returns in the fields) or downloaded from Google Books; escaped characters are automatically translated
  • Import more BibTex files at a time
  • Click on the title of the items grid to resize automatically the width of the columns
  • New icons set
  • Bugs fixes

New in Bibfilex 0.1.6 (Jul 22, 2014)

  • Buttons to browse the items
  • Bugs fixes

New in Bibfilex 0.1.5 (Jul 22, 2014)

  • Stop list to prevent articles and the like from being included in the BibTex key when it's automatically generated
  • Activate or deactivate the multi-selection in the items grid with a check box.
  • Qt (KDE) and OS X (Carbon library needed) packages have been added
  • Bugs fixes

New in Bibfilex 0.1.4 (Jul 22, 2014)

  • Compose the citation of an item according to a user-defined pattern and copy it in the clipboard Latex or HTML format; in the last case, the citation may be pasted in a word processor like LibreOffice Writer, maintaining font formatting (italics, small caps, etc.)
  • Bugs fixes

New in Bibfilex 0.1.3 (Jul 22, 2014)

  • Replaces the \cite and \printbibliography commands in a Latex document with extended citations and bibliography taken from the file in use, which are composed according to a user-defined pattern within the software
  • Bugfixes

New in Bibfilex 0.1.2 (Jul 22, 2014)

  • Filter the items from the BibTex keys contained in a Latex document within a “\cite” command
  • Minor improvements
  • Bugfixes