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%%*** Changes.tex *************************************************************
%%
%% This file is part of BibTool.
%% It is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share
%% Alike 3.0 License.
%%
%% (c) 2010-2017 Gerd Neugebauer
%%
%% Net: gene@gerd-neugebauer.de
%%
%%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
%% Usage: latex Changes
%% latex Changes
%%*****************************************************************************
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\newenvironment{Developers}{}{}
\newcommand\Developer[3]{}
\newcommand\Arg[1]{\texttt{#1}}
\newcommand\rsc[1]{\texttt{#1}}
\newcommand\File[1]{\textsf{#1}}
\newcommand\BibTool{\textsc{BibTool}}
\newcommand\BibTcl{\textsc{BibTcl}}
\newcommand\BibTeX{\textsc{Bib}\TeX}
\newenvironment{Release}[2]{%
\def\tmp{#2}%
\section*{Release #1 \ifx\tmp\empty\else{\normalsize[#2]}\fi}
\begin{itemize}
}{\end{itemize}}
\newenvironment{Fix}[1]{\item }{}
\newenvironment{New}[1]{\item }{}
\newenvironment{Doc}[1]{\item }{}
\newenvironment{Update}[1]{\item }{}
\newcommand\BS{\char`\\}
\begin{document}%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\title{\BibTool{} Change Log}
\author{Gerd Neugebauer}
\date{}
\maketitle
\begin{Developers}
\Developer{gene}{Gerd Neugebauer}{gene@gerd-neugebauer.de}
\end{Developers}
\begin{multicols}2\RaggedRight
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.67}{January 14, 2016}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Treatment of empty values for key separators fixed.
\end{Fix}
\begin{New}{gene}
Resource \rsc{parse.exit.on.error} added to force a stop when a parsing
error is encountered. The default is false, i.e. an error recovery is
attempted.
\end{New}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Error messages for parsing resource arguments improved. The usual pointer
is used there as well.
\end{Update}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Documentation extended to cover the exit codes of \BibTool.
\end{Update}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Some updates in the documentation files for the new \TeX\ live:
removing old font commands.
\end{Update}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.66}{October 30, 2016}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
\File{lib/biblatex.rsc} fixed.
\end{Fix}
\begin{New}{gene}
Resource \rsc{keep.field} added to get rid of unknown fields.
\end{New}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Internal memory management rewritten to get rid of unused memory
some time in the future. For now just the C code is changed
incompatibly if the macro \verb|COMPLEX_SYMBOL| is defined upon
compilation.
\end{Update}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Refactoring applied to make use of the C99 feature
\File{stdbool.h}.
\end{Update}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.65}{June 14, 2016}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Hash function and value storing for field name mapping during xref
expansion fixed.
\end{Fix}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.64}{June 6, 2016}
\begin{New}{gene}
New resource \rsc{expand.xdata} introduced to control the
expansion of xdata references.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
New resource \rsc{crossref.map} introduced to add a field name
mapping for cross-refs.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
New resource \rsc{clear.crossref.map} introduced to clear the
field name mapping for cross-refs.
\end{New}
\begin{Update}{gene}
\File{io.c} introduced to contain input and output file parameters.
\end{Update}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Documentation switched to Lua\LaTeX.
\end{Update}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.63}{January 16, 2016}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Omission of the previous release fixed.
\end{Fix}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.62}{January 16, 2016}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Combined rewrite and delete bug fixed.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Minor improvements for the distribution.
\end{Update}
\begin{Update}{gene}
\File{README} renamed to \File{README.md} to comply with the
conventions of the GitHub repository.
\end{Update}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.61}{July 12, 2015}
\begin{New}{gene}
New resource \rsc{rename.field} introduced to conditionally rename a
field.
\end{New}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Typedef \verb|String| for \verb|Uchar*| and used across.
\end{Update}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Duplicate file \File{doc/bibtool.tex} in the distribution tar ball
eliminated.
\end{Fix}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.60}{June 9, 2015}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
The field name and other symbols may start with any allowed
character. Non-alpha characters at the beginning are treated as
warning only.
\end{Fix}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.59}{March 14, 2015}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Fix in \File{print.c} to omit an empty line after overflowing lines.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Fix in \File{print.c} to avoid an overflow situation.
\end{Fix}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.58}{February 9, 2015}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Library \File{tex\_def.rsc} extended with the primitives \verb|\i| and
\verb|\j|.
\end{Update}
\begin{Update}{gene}
The source tar is signed. The key of the author can be obtained
from \texttt{pgp.mit.edu}.
\end{Update}
\begin{Update}{gene}
\texttt{Test} renamed to \texttt{test}.
\end{Update}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.57}{April 18, 2014}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Segfault in deTeX fixed.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Compiler warnings silenced.
\end{Fix}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.56}{April 14, 2014}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Disambiguating numbers adapted to fit to documentation.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Configuration of regex fixed to work on Linux.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Documentation typos fixed.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Signed characters fro translation tables changed to unsigned.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Autoconf configuration improved.
\end{Fix}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.55}{April 15, 2012}
\begin{New}{gene}
Library \File{biblatex.rsc} added. It contains capitalizations of
fields used in bib\LaTeX.
\end{New}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Fix for a misbehavior when selecting entries according to an aux file
with deeply nested @strings.
\end{Fix}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.54}{February 21, 2012}
\begin{New}{gene}
Command line parameter \Arg{-V} documented.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
Resource \rsc{key.make.alias} added to create new \texttt{@ALIAS}
records for any newly generated key.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
Resource \rsc{apply.alias} added to expand the \texttt{@ALIAS}
records.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
Resource \rsc{apply.include} added to expand the \texttt{@INCLUDE}
records.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
Resource \rsc{apply.modify} added to expand the \texttt{@MODIFY}
records.
\end{New}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Error message for \Arg{-o} without parameter added.
\end{Update}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
\texttt{@ALIAS} and \texttt{@INCLUDE} records where not printed.
This has been fixed.
\end{Fix}
\begin{New}{gene}
A test suite for \BibTool{} has been integrated. It requires Perl
to be present on the system on which the tests should be run.
\end{New}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.53}{September 25, 2011}
\begin{Update}{gene}
In \texttt{tex.define} spaces before the = are ignored instead of
leading to unwanted definitions.
\end{Update}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
An initialization error showed up on MacOS. This has been fixed.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
The prepared makefiles for various operating systems missed an
entry for \texttt{crossref.[cho]}.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Typo in help text and copyright year fixed.
\end{Fix}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.52}{June 6, 2011}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
A few incompatibilities with signed and unsigned characters which
showed up on MacOS only have been fixed.
\end{Fix}
% \end{Release}
% =====================================================================
% \begin{Release}{2.52}{April 26, 2011}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
A few compiler warnings have been fixed.
\end{Fix}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.51}{May 12, 2010}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix in \File{names.c}: The classification of name parts
erroneously has used a wrong translation under certain circumstances.
\end{Fix}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.50}{May 12, 2010}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix in \File{names.c}: The classification of name parts
erroneously has used a wrong translation under certain
circumstances.
\end{Fix}
%\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
%\begin{Release}{2.50}{February 6, 2010}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix in \File{key.c}: The classification of name parts
erroneously has considered, to be a first name under certain
circumstances. This has been improved.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Improvement in \File{names.c} and \File{key.c} concerning printing in
debug mode.
\end{Fix}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.49}{February 8, 2007}
\begin{New}{gene}
New resource \rsc{expand.crossref} introduced. This resource
enables the expansion of fields inherited via the cross-ref
mechanism.
\end{New}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix in \File{names.c}: The classification of name parts
erroneously has considered the initials V., I., and X. to be Roman
numerals belonging to the jr part under special circumstances.
This has been improved.
\end{Fix}
% =====================================================================
%\begin{Release}{2.49}{January 5, 2010}
\begin{New}{gene}
Name formatting now uses a fractional part to restrict the number
of name parts considered.
\end{New}
% =====================================================================
%\begin{Release}{2.49}{February 8, 2007}
\begin{New}{gene}
New resource \rsc{expand.crossref} introduced. This resource
enables the expansion of fields inherited via the cross-ref
mechanism.
\end{New}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix in \File{print.c}: Some national characters have been lost.
It was necessary to use an unsigned character as elsewhere.
\end{Fix}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.48}{August 6, 2004}
\begin{New}{gene}
Resource \rsc{print.terminal.comma} introduced. This resource can
be used to request commas after the last record even if it
contradicts the rules of \BibTeX.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
\File{makefile.in} for configure extended to support the variable
\texttt{INSTALLPREFIX} to be prepended to installation
directories.
\end{New}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix in \File{main.c}: Some compilers didn't like the method
true().
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix for kpathsea under Suse 9.1.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fixes in expansion.
\end{Fix}
%\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
%\begin{Release}{2.48}{February 8, 2004}
\begin{Update}{gene}
\BibTcl{} has been taken out of the default making since it has
caused troubles on several machines.
\end{Update}
\begin{Update}{gene}
The printing of Strings honors now the dependencies that
\BibTeX{} relies on. This has been accomplished by a change in
the printing routine for databases. No new resource is involved.
\end{Update}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Minor modification to the C API.
\end{Update}
\begin{New}{gene}
Feature: When searching for an aux file and none is found then
\texttt{.aux} is appended and a reopen is tried with the new name.
\end{New}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Feature: When \rsc{expand.macros} is set the macros will be
suppressed automatically. No need to set \rsc{print.entry.types}
any more.
\end{Update}
\begin{New}{gene}
The boolean resource \rsc{select.crossrefs} has been introduced.
This resource can be used to force cross-referenced entries for
selected entries to be included in the output.
\end{New}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Feature: deleted entries are not reported as "`written"' by the
statistics any more.
\end{Update}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix: Bug in extracting by aux file. Crossrefed entries where
sometimes ignored.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix: Bug in parsing of backslashes in resources has been fixed.
Unfortunately this bug appeared in one of the examples in the
manual.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix: Bug in expansion introduced in 2.47 has been fixed. An
error occurred when expanding macros.
\end{Fix}
\begin{New}{gene}
The resource loading with \rsc{resource} now issues a warning when
the file could not be found.
\end{New}
\begin{Doc}{gene}
The meaning of post for the format specifiers \%d and \%D has been
documented.
\end{Doc}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix: \BibTool{} has misinterpreted pre for the format specifier
\%t and \%T due to an over-optimization. This has been fixed.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix: \BibTool{} has ignored \rsc{preserve.key.case} for
cross-referenced keys. This has been fixed.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix: Some compilers don't like it if static strings are
modified. Thus I have made them dynamic.
\end{Fix}
\begin{New}{gene}
Experimental feature \rsc{regexp.syntax} added.
\end{New}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.47}{January 16, 2003}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix: \BibTool{} looped when parsing unbalanced blocks due to a
too short type in \File{parse.c}. This has been fixed and some
error messages have been improved.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Doc}{gene}
Some additions to the documentation due to Patrice Dumas.
\end{Doc}
\begin{New}{gene}
Resource \rsc{fmt.word.separator} introduced. This resource can be
used to mark additional characters to be considered as word
separators.
\end{New}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix: \BibTool{} looped when a malformed string of some kind was
given to expansion. This has been fixed in \verb|expand()|.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix: \BibTool{} crashed when called with empty format string
due to an uninitialized variable. This has been fixed in
\verb|parse_fmt()|.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Doc}{gene}
Bug fix: Documentation bug fixed. The default for \rsc{sort.key}
should be \verb|%s($key)|. This has been fixed in
\File{Lib/default.rsc} and the manual.
\end{Doc}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.46}{February 12 2002}
\begin{New}{gene}
Resource \rsc{sort.cased} introduced to allow the sorting order to
take advantage of upper and lower case characters. The default is
false which is the previous behavior.
\end{New}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.45}{October 22 2001}
\begin{New}{gene}
Resource \rsc{suppress.initial.newline} introduced to suppress the
empty line at the beginning of the output file.
\end{New}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix: Some C compilers don't like the initialization of static
variables with \texttt{stderr}. The code has been moved to a
initialization routine.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix: \texttt{-R} disables the reading of the resource at the
end of processing of command line arguments.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix: Parsing of select arguments with backslashes were not treated
correctly.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Doc}{gene}
Minor documentation bugs fixed.
\end{Doc}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.44}{April 7 1999}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Key generation fixed to expand \BibTeX{} strings. The current
behavior is likely to change again in a future release.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Updated to work with kpathsea 3.1 (partially).
\end{Update}
\begin{New}{gene}
Searching for the kpathsea library is now the default in the
configure script. Thus it is possible to simply place \BibTool{}
in a web2c tree. This only requires that the directory is named
bibtool and bibtool is added to the file lists in Makefile,
configure, and configure.in of the web2c main directory.
\end{New}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
\rsc{check.double} message improved.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Initialization bug for kpathsea fixed.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix for cross referencing: normalization to lowercase was
missing twice.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix in the \TeX{} reading routines: spaces after active
characters are not ignored. All characters are treated as
unsigned. This seems to be preferable for extended ASCII
characters.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Key generation routines adapted to work with multiple databases.
The symbol table is no longer abused to store information for the
key generation. This may slow down the key generation a little
bit. If it turns out to be a problem I will use a better
algorithm.
\end{Update}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Minor modifications in makefiles.
\end{Update}
\begin{New}{gene}
The configuration of \BibTcl{} is now done automatically.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
New data type introduced: \verb|Uchar| will hold Unicode characters in a
future release. I just have to find regexp routines to work with UTF-8.
\end{New}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Extraction extended to allow negation of the regular expression and string
matching result. New resources \rsc{select.non} and
\rsc{select.by.non.string} to specify such a request. C function
\verb|add_extract()| extended to cover negated values and the former
function \verb|add_s_extract()|.
\end{Update}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.43}{}
\begin{New}{gene}
Additional library \rsc{braces.rsc} to translate quotes as field
delimiters into braces.
\end{New}
\begin{Update}{gene}
\verb|bibtool -h| reports now also the library path. This can be
used by external scripts to find the installation directory of
\BibTool.
\end{Update}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fix: comments are no longer crippled.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Minor bug fix in rewriting code: empty pattern works again.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
The regression tests have revealed a bug fix in the key generation
code. I am not aware of the change that has let to this effect but
the new behavior is correct. Before, the macro expansion was
suppressed under certain circumstances.
\end{Fix}
\begin{New}{gene}
\BibTcl: \verb|bibtool count db| added.
\end{New}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
\BibTcl: \verb|bibtool missing| ignores the case of the field
name.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Update}{gene}
\BibTcl: consistently renaming \verb|record| to \verb|entry|.
\end{Update}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Minor modifications of makefile to correctly generate
\File{libbib.a} and install the header files.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Reorganization of the code; header files are now in their own directory. I
don't have the appropriate information for some DOS compilers yet.
Thus minor modifications in the makefile might be required.
\end{Update}
\begin{New}{gene}
C function \verb|entry_statistics()| removed. The functionality
can be modeled with the new C function \verb|db_count()|. This
takes into account that several databases can be managed
internally.
\end{New}
\begin{Update}{gene}
C function \verb|save_word()| renamed to \verb|add_word()|.
\verb|list_words()| removed since it has been used for debugging
only.
\end{Update}
\begin{Update}{gene}
EntryTypes implementation changed. The API doesn't change.
Data type \verb|StringTab| is now local to \File{symbols.c}.
Data type \verb|Rule| is now local to \File{rewrite.c}.
\end{Update}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.42}{}
\begin{New}{gene}
New selection operation introduced. The selection with regular expressions
is complemented by a selection according to simple sub-strings. This
selection is initiated with the new resource \rsc{select.string}
which takes the same arguments as the resource \rsc{select} but
does comparison for a sub-string instead of regular expression matching.
The value of \rsc{select.case.sensitive} is taken into account but
at run-time and not at specification time. Certain characters can be
ignored for the comparison. Those are contained in the new string resource
\rsc{select.ignored}.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
New resource \rsc{print.entry.types} introduced. This resource
controls the entry types and the order in which they are printed.
In fact the macro printing facility is obsolete with this new
resource.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
New resource \rsc{clear.ignored.words} introduced. In fact this is
a function which deletes all ignored words. Thus it is possible to
determine all ignored words at run-time--even the compiled in
defaults.
\end{New}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fixed: selection honors the resource \rsc{print.all.strings}
now.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Makefiles slightly improved. Less manual adaption. Installation of all
library files -- even on Solaris.
\end{Update}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Name formatting omission fixed: Translation and length are taken
into account correctly. The new name format sign * has been
introduced to denote the inheritance of the translation from the
calling format.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Restriction relaxed. Now it is possible to declare up to MAXINT
entry types and not only 4096. The \verb|Record| data structure
and the associated macros have been modified slightly to
accomplish this.
\end{Update}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug in the aux file selection mechanism fixed. This bug caused some cross
referenced entries to be missing under special circumstances.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug in \File{key.c} fixed which caused a crash because an
initialization was missing under certain circumstances.
\end{Fix}
\begin{New}{gene}
Make target \File{libbib.a} added. This is known to work on UNIX. I would
like to get feedback for other systems.
\end{New}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Minor bug in \File{names.c} fixed.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Minor bug in \File{print.c} fixed. \rsc{print.wide.equal} does not
have exceptions any more.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Minor bug in \File{print.c} fixed. Deleted fields are treated better.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug in \File{database.c} fixed which caused macro expansion to fail under
certain circumstances.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Update}{gene}
\BibTcl: \verb|bibtool format| allows to use the full power of
format specifications.
\end{Update}
\begin{New}{gene}
\BibTcl: \verb|bibtool sprint| added which returns the formatted
string representation of an entry.
\end{New}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
\BibTcl: Bug in \verb|$rec set \$key ...| fixed.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Minor changes in the C interface (Just wait for the compiler or
linker to complain about different arguments:-).
\end{Update}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.41}{}
\begin{New}{gene}
New Boolean resource \rsc{print.equal.right} which controls whether
the = in normal entries is aligned right or left.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
New Boolean \rsc{resource print.wide.equal} which controls whether
the equal sign is surrounded by spaces even if the alignment forces a
narrower layout.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
New Boolean resource \rsc{print.comma.at.end} which control-ls
whether the comma between fields is printed at the end or at the beginning
of a field/value pair.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
New Boolean resource \rsc{print.deleted.entries} which controls the
treatment of deleted entries. If this resource is true then delete entries
are put as comments into the output. This is the old behavior and thus it
is the default.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
Pseudo field \rsc{sortkey} added.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
Pseudo field \rsc{source} added which contains the file name the
record has been read from or the empty string if this can not be
determined.
\end{New}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Makefile adapted to meet the description.
\end{Fix}
\begin{New}{gene}
configure creates \File{./config.h} as well.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
Strings can be either local to a database or global. The output of macros
does include local macros only. This is a point of incompatibility with
previous versions.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
Massive extensions to \BibTcl.
\end{New}
\begin{Doc}{gene}
Cleaning of the sources and massive addition of documentation. Now the
documentation of the C functions is present. Thus it becomes possible to
use the \BibTool{} routines to write C programs. \BibTcl{} is a first
application of this technique. Nevertheless a few changes seem possible
before things are cut in stone.
\end{Doc}
\begin{Doc}{gene}
According to a suggestion by Oren Patashnik the term entry is used instead
of record -- at least in the documentation.
\end{Doc}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Minor bug in \File{print.c} fixed which caused looping when small values
for line length and alignment column was given.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Minor bug-fix in \File{key.c}. The resource \rsc{crossref.limit} was
off by 1.
\end{Fix}
\begin{New}{gene}
Some additions have been made to support new features in the forthcoming
\BibTeX{} 1.0. They do not really work right now but just restrict the
accepted input files.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
Flag \texttt{--with-kpathsea} added to configure.
\end{New}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.40}{}
\begin{New}{gene}
Sorting uses the new key instead of the old one as before. This has not
been specified, but the new behavior might be more intuitive.
\end{New}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
\rsc{key.format=empty} fixed. \rsc{key.format} \rsc{short.need}
and \rsc{long.need} are aliases for \rsc{new.short} and
\rsc{new.long} resp.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Some error messages slightly improved.
\end{Update}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Minor print bug fixed: additional commas appeared when the last field was
deleted.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Doc}{gene}
Typo in documentation: I had typed \rsc{preserve.key} instead of
\rsc{preserve.keys}. Shame on me:-) Some additional examples in the
documentation.
\end{Doc}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Field deletion completely covered by the rewriting mechanism.
\rsc{delete.field} is kept for backward compatibility as an alias.
\end{Update}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.39}{}
\begin{Update}{gene}
The default for the pattern in the select resource is now '.'.
Thus it is easier to select entries with a given type.
\end{Update}
\begin{New}{gene}
New resource \rsc{preserve.keys} introduced. If this resource is on
then key generation touches only entries with empty keys. The keys of
other entries are left unchanged. Initially this resource is off.
\end{New}
\begin{Update}{gene}
The disambiguation now respects the order of the entries. Previously it
used the reverse order which was contra-intuitive.
\end{Update}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Formatting names: Names connected by ~ or tight initials (A.U. Thor) are
now treated better.
\end{Update}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Nasty little bug in the key specification parser fixed. This has
(sometimes) let to a wrong evaluation of disjunctions.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Minor bug in verbose messages fixed.
\end{Fix}
\begin{New}{gene}
AutoConf scripts added.
\end{New}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.38}{}
\begin{New}{gene}
Format specifier \%d enhanced. It can fail now if no number is found in
the field. The minus sign means padding to a fixed length. The plus sign
means not to fail but use 0. The post specifier can be used to select
another but the first number. E.g. \%.2d means to use the second number.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
Format specifier \%D introduced. It acts like \%d but does not truncate
the number. Thus larger numbers are used completely.
\end{New}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bug fixed. If the key format failed then the key was left empty. Now the
default key is used as written in the documentation. Somehow the bug fix
for the select statement has not made it into the last release. Now it
should be in.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Doc}{gene}
Several mistakes in the documentation corrected.
\end{Doc}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.37}{}
\begin{New}{gene}
kpathsea support for searching \BibTeX{} files added.
\end{New}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Bugs fixed: Searching/key generation combination and aux file evaluation.
\end{Fix}
\begin{New}{gene}
The distribution is now available in two forms: as a gzipped tar file and
as a zip archive.
\end{New}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.36}{}
\begin{New}{gene}
Added sample file for interfacing \BibTool{} with Tcl:
\File{Tcl/bibtool.tcl}.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
Added sample file for interfacing \BibTool{} with Perl:
\File{Perl/bibtool.pl}.
\end{New}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Minor bug fix in string parsing routines. E.g. select from command line
was not evaluated properly.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Minor bug fixed. \rsc{add.field} now works again as described in
the documentation.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Minor bug fixed. Command line argument \Arg{-r} issued a warning
when everything was ok.
\end{Fix}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.35}{}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Inheritance via crossref can be used to access fields in another
entry when creating keys. E.g. this means that crossreferencing
inproceedings can access the booktitle of the proceedings. The new
resource \rsc{crossref.limit} restricts the number of crossrefs
followed. E.g. 0 means do not follow crossrefs (as it has been in
previous releases). The default is 32.
\end{Update}
\begin{New}{gene}
New Boolean resource \rsc{check.do.delete} introduced. If this
resource is on then the double entries are not only preceded by
\#\#\# instead of @ but deleted completely.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
New Boolean resource \rsc{sort.macros} introduced. If this is on
then the macro definitions are sorted alphabetically. Default: on
\end{New}
\begin{Update}{gene}
The handling of comments has been changed completely. Comments are
now attached to the preamble/string/normal entry following them.
Especially during sorting the comments are rearranged as well.
This seems useful to keep comments on macro definitions and the
definitions together. The last comment always stays at the end.
\end{Update}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Minor bug fixed. The searching for \File{.bibtoolrsc} went wrong.
\end{Fix}
\begin{Fix}{gene}
Minor bug fixed. \rsc{output.file} resource acted incorrect.
\end{Fix}
\begin{New}{gene}
\rsc{print.all.strings} acts like described in the documentation.
\end{New}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Resource arguments in the command line can have unbalanced braces in
strings now. Still there is no escape character defined.
\end{Update}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Internally \BibTool{} can handle more than one database simultaneously.
This is needed for the SQL interface. Let's see how this can be used
otherwise.
\end{Update}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================
\begin{Release}{2.34}{}
\begin{Update}{gene}
Default value of \rsc{key.expand.macros} changed to on. This seems
to be a more sensible default value. (Possible incompatibility to old
version)
\end{Update}
\begin{New}{gene}
\rsc{new.format.type} introduced. This command can be used to
specify formatting rules for names. It is used in conjunction with the \%p
format specification which has been added.
\end{New}
\begin{New}{gene}
The format specifiers for counting names/words/characters have been added.
Those act as boo leans which force backtracking if they fail. The qualifier
\# is used to enable counting.
\end{New}
\begin{Update}{gene}
When writing macro files undefined macros are written as
\verb|_string| instead of \verb|@STRING|. Thus they are
comments to \BibTeX{}.
\end{Update}
\begin{Update}{gene}
The command line options \Arg{-x} and \Arg{-X} now also set
\rsc{print.all.strings} to off. (This has no effect yet)
\end{Update}
\begin{Doc}{gene}
The documentation has been updated.
\end{Doc}
\end{Release}
% =====================================================================