[Kde-announce-apps] KBib 0.5.3

[Thach Nguyen]

Name: KBib
Version: 0.5.3
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.

Features:
     *   Add/edit/remove references
    * 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 and vice versus)
    * Create new reference from plain text
    * 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)
    * Support string macros
    * Import references from
Bibtex/RIS/ISI/Endnote/COPAC/MODS XML/PubMed
XML/Endnote exported Bibtex (without citation key)
files
    * Export to RIS/Endnote/MODS XML/HTML files
    * Search references from Z39.50 servers, SRU
servers and Pubmed server.
    * Download references from remote reference
database (opened with Konqueror, Firefox), such as
IEEEXplore, ScienceDirect (RIS format), Web of
Science (ISI format) into KBib (seescreenshot)
    * Save selected references into a new file
    * Maintain a list of existing
authors/journals/keywords in the current document
    * Support user defined reference types
    * Add/Delete/Edit reference types
    * Allow different view modes (view all/by
reference type/selected references/unselected
references)
    * Group references by various properties.
References can be grouped by Reference
type/Author/Editor/Journal/Keywords. Group view
can be disabled.
    * Allow flexible displayed fields
    * Generate bibliography from selected
references


Changelog:
 Version 0.5.3:
    - Added remote database searching. Z39.50, SRU
and Pubmed databases can be searched.
    - Added dialog to create new reference from
plain text.
    - Improved ISI importer.
    - Fixed crashing when opening some non-BibTex
file directly. - Fixed some minor bugs.

Version 0.5.2:
    - Added UTF8 encoding supprt. KBib now can
open, display and save BibTex file with UTF8
encoding characters correctly.
    - Fixed missing keywords when importing
references from certain websites. 

Version 0.5.1:
    - Added preamble support.
    - Added exporting to MODS, HTML and importing
from Pubmed (XML), MODS, COPAC files
(import/export filters are now based on bibutils
3.27)
    - Added auto text completion for authors,
editors, journal and keywords fields in reference
editing dialog
    - Added note editing in reference editor,
long, multiline notes, comments or reviews can be
added to references
    - Added link to local file and DOI functions
    - Added option in configuration dialog to
control how to compare two references
    - Added option to control how the authors to
be displayed in the main view
    - Added option to set the keyword seperator
    - Added menu entry to copy selected references
as formated string
    - Fixed crashing when opening files saved by
Jabref

Version 0.5:
    - Added groupview
    - Added field delimiter option in
configuration dialog. Different delimiter can be
used when writing BibTex file.
    - Fixed missing year when importing ISI file
or downloading references from ISI Web of
Knowledge.
    - Fixed problem of opening URL with space or &
    - Internal code refactoring and minor bug
fixes 

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

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