Michael McCracken's Weblog
 Sunday, August 4, 2002

The item below should be titled "BibDesk v0.8b Released" and point you to the BibDesk web page: http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/bibdesk.html
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Only a couple days late!

If you're reading my weblog, you probably know a little bit about RSS. I've written a page that explains more about using the new RSS features of BibDesk at http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/AboutRSS.html

If you do post RSS versions of your publications lists, please let me know.

Just to recap, here's what's new:

* Type-ahead selection in publication table - type some letters in an author's name and BibDesk select s their publications.

* Custom citations drawer - allows more convenient use of different citation strings.

* Error reporting and editing - view errors and warnings from BibTeX parsing in bibdesk, edit and open a copy with the changes.

* RSS generation - please see http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/AboutRSS.html

A ton of GUI tweaks: * Configurable table columns and quick-search keys * columns remember their size and position, quicksearch fields remember their contents * other UI elements remember their previous settings across runs of the application.

And lastly, an experimental new view-by-author feature that presents publications in an outline form, grouped by author. NOTE: experimental means it can sometimes crash (specifically, when configuring the toolbar) so please save your files before evaluating it.
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