BibCompanion
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— the bibliography management software —
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* Table of Contents
BibCompanion is basically a BibTeX database (.bib file) editor, however, it is beyond an editor but a bibliography management system for everyone.
It has quick and easy search function, as well as smart/manual libraries to classify bib items.
Both of them provide efficient ways of accessing to desired articles.
Furthermore, each bib item can have attached files such as PDF files, so that BibCompanion is very useful for daily use in addition when you preparing a paper.
Following is an example of BibCompanion window.
- Database Editing Feature
- Unlimited number of letters in a filed
- Smart paste on authors and title fields
- TeX command input support
- File attachment feature (folder attachment is also possible)
- URL/e-mail attachment
- Raw field direct edit
- Macros/preambles edit
- Fully customizable bib types
- Supports all text encodings which is supported by MacOS X
- Database Management Feature
- Multiple database management in one window
- Incremental search in author and field data
- Smart library (conditional search library)
- Manual library
- Library group (can be nested)
- Image/PDF file viewer
- Fully customizable list display
- Operating System
- Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later. It does not work under 10.3 (Panther) or earlier. If you want to use it with Panther, please get the older version 1.0.1.
- Mac Hardware
- Mac with IBM PowerPC or Intel CPU running under the above OS.
It is an universal binary application so that it runs optimally both on PowerPC and Intel Macs.
The author tested BibCompanion with PowerBook G4/MacOS X 10.4.9.
BibCompanion contains English and Japanese language resources.
A language used by BibCompanion depends on International setting of the System Preferences.
A downloading file below is the same as that from a Japanese web page.
You will find a HTML file <README 1st-English.html> with an application file when you expand the downloaded zip archive.
Read this and agree with cautions before you use BibCompanion.
- 1.2.2
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- Fixed a bug that a database ID unexpectedly changed when a database is edited with version 1.2.1 (as a result, smart libraries which searches a specified database does not work correctly).
- Fixed a bug that macro expansion does not work after editing macros with version 1.2.1.
- Several minor cosmetic adjustments etc.
- 1.2.1
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- Uppercase field names are now acceptable (those are converted into lowercase names).
- 1.2
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- Added a function that exports a library or a group as a BibTeX database file.
- Now you can append a new bib item even if you select a library or a group (It appears a choice menu when plural database is opened).
- Text encoding, line ending and how to treat attachments can be chosen when a database is saved as another name.
- Font sizes for database, author and bib items lists can be selectable from 12 to 20 points.
- Font size choice for the detail info panel was changed to point sizes of 10 to 16.
- Font size for annotation and raw fields also follow that for the detail info.
- Fixed a bug that a connecting operator (#) in a macro definition appears in an expanded expression (this bug is not really fixed in the version 1.1).
- 1.1.1
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- Fixed a bug that [Save Database As...] function does not work.
- Fixed a bug that removing items with attached files in a database without privilege actually removes the files.
- Fixed a bug that removing items when [All Databases] or a library group is selected only shows an alert to remove but does not remove actually.
- 1.1
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- Since it was compiled as an universal binary, its performance on Intel Macs were greatly enhanced. However, MacOS X 10.3 is now out of supported OS.
- In the editing mode, drag & drop action onto the file view panel adds attachment file to the editing bib item.
- Added a functionality that author names more than a specified number are abbreviated as ‘et al.’ when bibliography is copied as a list.
- Author name format can be selectable from [Family, Given], [Given Family], [Family name only] and [Family, Given for 1st author] when bibliography is copied as a list.
- You can specify a name delimiter in an authors list when bibliography is copied as a list.
- You can choose a list type of [No line index], [Simple itemized list], [Serial number list] and [Bibkey list] when bibliography is copied as a HTML/RTF list.
- A section mark (§) in a name list is removed when smart author paste works.
- Smart paste action of accented characters from a PDF file was improved.
- A semi-colon delimited name list can be pasted correctly.
- Fixed a bug that a connecting operator (#) in a macro definition appears in an expanded expression.
- Fixed a bug that an error occurs when an empty field exists in a database. Empty fields are simply ignored.
- Fixed a bug that empty bib type is accepted.
- Several minor cosmetic adjustments.
- 1.0.1
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- Now it is possible to append attachment files to existing attachments.
- HTML copy now follows XHTML 1.1 and itemize block (ol/ul) is used for bib item list.
RTF copy format was also changed with this revision.
- Help composition was changed to browse easier with a small display.
- 1.0
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- BibCompanion stops with error in very rare cases on launch.
→ Launch the application again. Database file may not be broken by this error. At present, a cause of this problem is unknown.
- When a listed item of smart library for duplicated items search with manual update was edited and then deleted or the database was closed, another one of the duplicated pair remains in the duplicated list.
→ Update the smart library with [File - Update Smart Library] menu. Basically, contents of a manual updated smart library is not guaranteed to be correct except just after an update.
If you find a bug, please contact to the author
Hitoshi Nakahara: nakahara@@nagoya-u.jp (@ is doubled to prevent spams)
Please attach a database file if the bug is strongly related to the database.
