[Kde-announce-apps] KBib 0.5

[Thach Nguyen]

Name: KBib
Version: 0.5
Type: Scientific
Depend: KDE 3.x
License: GPL
Homepage:
http://user.digisurf.com.au/~thachly/kbib/
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=41050

Description:
 KBib is a BibTex management program for KDE
(Similar to KBibTex).

Features:
    * Add/edit/remove references
    * Support native BibTex source editting
    * Support copy/paste/drag-drop of references
(BibTex entries can be copied/pasted or
dragged/dropped from another Kbib window or a text
editor into KBib)
    * Find/remove duplicated references
    * Generate citation key automatically
    * Check/correct duplicated citation keys
    * Lock/unlock citation keys (to prevent
unwanted change of citation keys)
    * Sort references
    * Search references(fairly simple)
    * Cite selected references into Lyx/Kile
(using Lyx pipe) or clipboard.
    * Support string macros
    * Import references from
Bibtex/RIS/ISI/Endnote/Endnote exported Bibtex
(without citation key) files
    * Export to RIS/Endnote files
    * Download references from remote reference
database (opened with Konqueror, Firefox), such as
IEEEXplore, ScienceDirect (RIS format), Web of
Science (ISI format) into KBib 
    * Save selected references into a new file
    * Maintain a list of existing authors in the
current document
    * Predefined and user defined reference types
    * Add/Delete/Edit reference types
    * Different view modes (view all/by reference
type/selected references/unselected references)
    * Flexible displayed fields
Group references by various properties. 
    * References can be grouped by Reference
type/Author/Editor/Jounal/Keywords. Group view can
be disabled.

    * Generate bioliography from selected
references

Changelog:
 Version 0.5:
- Add group view. References can be grouped by
Reference type/Author/Editor/Jounal/Keywords. It
can be disabled.
- Add field delimiter option in configuration
dialog. Different delimiter can be used when
writing BibTex file.
- Fix missing year when importing ISI file or
downloading references from ISI Web of Knowledge.
- Fix problem of opening URL with space or & -
Internal code refactoring and minor bug fixes


Version 0.4.2:
- Fix problem of opening files with undefined
reference type.
- Fix reference editing dialog. Newly entered data
is not lost when changing reference type.
- Fix problem of crashing when create citation key
with empty author.
- Undefined fields now read in as extra fields. 

Version 0.4.1:
- Fix mime type definitions so that references
from remote reference databases can be downloaded
into KBib.
- Fix missing files and directories