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Bib2ML (aka. Bib2HTML)

Changes:

• bib2sql: Bug fix: the bibtex_entrytype table is not filled with the types of the entries due to an error in a boolean condition.
• bib2sql: Notify with a warning when the same author seems to appear many times for the same entry.
• bib2sql: add command line parameter 'sql-engine' which permits to specify the SQL engine for which the SQL script should be generated.
• bib2sql: create the MySQL support.
• bib2sql: create the PostgreSQL support.

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• bib2sql: the word "order" could not be used as variable name because it is a reserved word in SQL syntax. Rename it as "order_id".
• bib2sql: Ensure that the numerical identifiers of the authors and editors are unique.

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• Add missed files into the Debian packages.

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• Replace 'tetex' package suggestions by 'texlive' packages.

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• Extend the syntax supported for the bibtex keys, but output a warning.
• Add warning message when a language file was not found (verbose mode 2 or higher).

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• Add function which remove the accents from an HTML string. This function is used to have consistent sorting outputs.
• Changes the labels of the trees' root nodes.
• The C and c acute characters are now correctly substitued.
• Bug fix: the caron TeX characters are not translated into well-formated HTML characters. Fixed
• Bug fix: in Simple.pm, some hash references have not a generic syntax which cause invalid invalid hash refs exceptions.
• Change the official website address from "www.arakhne.org/bib2html" to "www.arakhne.org/bib2ml".

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• Add the support for the TeX command \url.
• Major bug fix: the locale support of the Theme were not loaded. Fixed.

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• Bug fix: several thrid-party tools declare BibTeX fields with a name composed of the special characters "-_0-9:.". The BibTeX parser now supports this kind of field name.

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• Use Debian alternatives instead of direct links from /usr/bin to the Perl scripts.

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• Not enough file included into the bib2ml-common package.

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• Rename the tool Bib2HTML into Bib2ML which is more closer to the different available translations. And it will prepare the submission to CTAN.

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• When the 'pdf' field contains a local file reference, it will be replaced by the 'localfile' field.

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• Add the field 'doi' inside the Extended generator.
• Add the support of the JabRef's groups.

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• Add new latex commands: \mathbb, \{, \}
• Bug fixes in the XML generator, the quotation, the ampersand and the less-then and greater-than characters are not properly processed.
• The sorting functions was re-implemented to tackle problems one accentuated characters.
• The 'inbook' entries will be proceeded as the "book" entries.

Changes:

• Feature:
  • Add the SQL generator.
  • Add several generator's parameters in the HTML and the XML generators.
  • Add the command line options '--protect', '--cvs', '--svn'
• Bug fixes:
  • Rewrite some error messages to be more understandable.
• Packaging:
  • Split the original bib2html Debian package into more dedicated packages.

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• Tobia adds the support for some roman characters.

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• Add the support of the BibTeX field 'adsurl' which permits to link to the standard Astrophysics Citation Reference Database.

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• When the BibTeX parser find multi-definition of BibTeX strings, it dies on an undefined subroutine error.

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• Features:
  • Do not display in verbatim mode the BibTeX fields with a name starting with "opt".
  • Luca patches the TeX translator for supporting more letters with the caron accent.
  • From a Luca's request, the generator parameter 'hideindex' is introduced to allow hiding of the indexes.
  • Aurel introduces the generator parameters 'max-titlelength-overview' and 'show-journalparams-overview'.
  • Stephane introduces the generator parameter 'doc-repository'.
  • Stephane introduces the command 'bib2xml' as a specialization of bib2html (with the option -g XML).
• Bugs:
  • The translator does not produce the right default value for the TeX command \v.
  • The HTML function which permits to extract author initials was fixed to support in entry name's initials.
  • The list of generators was ot properly displayed if the absolute path to bib2html contains a directory name with a space character.
  • The list of support languages was ot properly displayed if the absolute path to bib2html contains a directory name with a space character.
  • The editors was not displayed when the author's list was empty.
  • The BibTeX references [???] now support HTML characters.

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• Features:
  • Add some norvegian characters.
• Bugs:
  • The parameter of @preamble is now entirely parsed as a string. You don't need any more to enclose the TeX command by braces.
  • the parser for the author's names know support HTML entities inside the firstnames.

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• Features:
  • Add the field 'pdf' which must contains the name of a PDF file (an URL or a local filename).
  • Add the parameter 'backslash' for the Extended generator.
• Bugs:
  • In the parser, The token 'string' could be preceeded by a set of space from the start of the line.
  • Remove the required display of the field 'date'. In BibTeX, the fields 'year' and 'month' replace it.
  • Be sure that some characters will not be used inside the filnames (e.g. ':').
  • Major bug fix inside the parser. Multiple specification of BibTeX filename on the command line is now truly supported.

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• Features:
  • Portuguese is included into the generators by Joao.
• Bugs:
  • The name of the language passed with '--lang' is now case-insensitive.

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• Features:
  • More TeX commands are added by Dimitris: \epsilon, \Epsilon, \mathbf, \mathit, \mathrm, \mathsf, \mathtt, \mathnormal, \sqrt.
  • Create a XML generator which respect the DTD from BibTeXML.
  • Add an XML output inside the HTML generator.
• Bugs:
  • The character '+' is not allowed inside the entry keys.

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• Features:
  • Spanish is included into the generators by Sebastian.
  • Links to the author's list of publication was added for each other inside the entry's field list.
  • Add an XML output inside the HTML generator.
  • The option '--checknames' permits to check if some author's names are duplicated or contain mistakes
• Bugs:
  • the year does not appears inside the table of the fields.
  • the language support for theme only applies the English definitions, not the other languages (French, Spanish)

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• Bugs:
  • sometimes the carriage return characters was not supported by the BibTeX parser.
  • Generation of the BibTeX short labels (eg. [ABC04]) produces too long labels in case a lot of names was proposed to the function.
  • The names of the authors are not well upper-cased for each first letter of the words.
  • if an error occurs during the copy of a pdf file, bib2html will not failed but only warm the user.

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• Bugs:
  • do not copy the electronical file with the generator parameter 'target-url' was specified for the Extended generator.

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• Features:
  • the generator parameter 'type-matching' has its value's syntax extended.
  • Add the new BibTeX entry type 'proceedings' and 'unpublished'
• Bugs:
  • The values of the fields 'localfile' and 'url' were not properly extracted.
  • Fix the indentation of the generated BibTeX section
  • Updates some language's strings
  • Assumes that the characters '-' and '_' are aliases for the character '-' inside the generator parameter's names
  • Fix the output to be validable by the W3C validators (HTML 4.01 and CSS)

Changes:

• Bugs:
  • the special section @comment{} was not properly parsed. Fix it with an update of the regular expression which matches "@COMMENT".
  • Allow the state "line_comment" to finish the BibTeX file's parsing

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• Features:
  • enhances the generator parameters 'author-regexp', etc: add many new types instead of one.
  • add the support of the BibTeX field 'crossref': it permits to implement a kind of inheritance between two entries
  • add the generation of a BibTeX code verbatim (and the command line parameter which permits to set it on/off)
• Bugs:
  • in indexes, regroup the reference with the same label
  • put a better header title inside the HTML files of the entries
  • w3c norm fix: generates the tags
  • add a white background color for the theme Simple
  • in ExtendedGen.pm, DomainGen.pm: fix a syntactical error and update to be compliant with fixes that occurs inside HTMLGen.pm
  • in HTMLGen.pm, Norbert fixes some bug due to the bad inclusion of their patchs for the release 1.0
  • in Parser.pm: Norbert fixes a infinite loop recusion bug. This bug is due to the definition of a constant with same name and value (in a lowercase comparison). For example: @STRING{springer=Springer} generates a infinite loop.
  • some code cleaning

Changes:

• Features:
  • add generator parameters for the HTMLGen generator: author-regexp, max-names-overview, max-names-list, newtype, type-matching (added by Norbert)
• Bugs:
  • an exception was generated when an entry has no author nor editor
  • in bibtex parsing: now support syntax as foo # " and " # bla
  • applies patchs from Norbert in TeX.pm, Misc.pm and HTMLGen.pm

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• Features:
  • add an index of authors and of author's publications inside the two left frames
  • add the class AbstractGenerator.pm
  • add ExtendedGen.pm which permits to generate HTML page with:
    1. isbn, issn, and readers
    2. abstract and keywords
    3. the support for downloading an electronic document ('localfile')
    4. add the support of LaTeX environments (\begin,\end)
    5. add the generator Domain which permits to support domain for documents (domain, nddomain, rddomain, domains)
• Bugs:
  • in HTMLGen.pm, fixes not initialized variable uses
  • changes the behavior of some command line options
  • in Parser.pm, support recursive merging operator for strings

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• Bugs:
  • in BibScanner.pm, did not recognized correctly the @STRING commands
  • in BibScanner.pm, the concatened strings was too early merged (before any replacement by the @STRING's values)
  • in BibScanner.pm, the parsed field labels must be automatically lower cased. Ut permits to support case-independent label for BibTeX fields
  • in Scanner.pm, ungetpattern() does not its job well

Changes:

• Features:
  • Adds the generator 'Extended' which support the bibtex tags:
  • 'url' : URL to informational web page
  • 'isbn'
  • 'issn'
  • 'localfile' : relative path to a file to download
  • 'abstract'
  • 'keywords'
  • 'readers' : informational tag that indicates who read this entry (according to the bibtex name syntax)
  • Adds the support of "et al." inside the bibtex names.
  • Adds some command line arguments.
• Bugs:
  • in the HTML filename translations.
  • get the editor field when the author one is empty.
  • ignore TeX parsing for the fields 'localfile' and 'url'.
  • support more formats for the bibtex author's names:
  • [von] Last, jr, First [and ...]
  • First [von] Last, jr [and ...]
  • [von] Last, First [jr] [and ...]
  • First [von] Last [jr] [and ...]
  • name, [name, ...] [and name]

Changes:

• Features:
  • adds the support of the LaTeX commands \cite[]{}.
• Bugs:
  • recognizes the character '-' inside the bibkeys.
  • some other minor bug fixes.

Changes:

• Features:
  • add the support of mathematical modes (not the support of all TeX commands inside the mathematical mode).
  • partial support of Math-ML
• Bugs:
  • add support of some TeX commands( \i, \~, ...).
  • ignore text between bibtex entries.
  • better recognition for author names.
  • warm the user when the "year" is not a number.
  • bug in the verbosing level calculation.
  • some syntaxic fixes.

Changes:

• Features:
  • adds the multi-language support.
  • adds theme for the HTML generators.
• Bugs:
  • some uses of the function sort inside a return are improper. Fixed to be sure that the return statement takes only one value.
  • adds the function notempty() to permit to have strings which contain only "0".

Changes:

• This is the first public release on the version entirely based on perl.