Project Idea: BibTeXBase

Daniel Weibel

Created 1 Feb 2014

BibTeXBase: a BibTeX front-end in Python for Mac

Features

Recursive groups
Easy drag and drop of items between groups
Drag groups in a certain order
Creation of meaningful cite keys
Fixing Springer’s bug of missing cite key
Automatic title capitalisation (python package ‘titlecase’)
Incremental search in BibTeX file
Copy cite commands as \cite{A,B,C} or \cite{A}, \cite{B}, \cite{C}
Annotations: add as blocks; date automatically printed at beginning of block; blocks can be added, modified, and deleted
Tracking of attached files so that these files can be moved on disk but the reference in BibBase still holds (how to do this?)
Create copy of BibTeX file (1) as is; ((2) as is but without annotations); (3) as pure BibTeX file
Addition of item: (1) drag and drop; (2) copy paste of BibTeX entry; (3) entry form; (4) automatic reading of .txt and .bib files from a specified folder and linking them with similarly-named .pdf files.