Thu Feb 04 16:22:07 2010 * Version 2.31 released. * new option "paragraph" now produces paragraphs (no bullets) * Use crlf IO open option in order to avoid problems under Windows with Cygwin. Thu Jul 02 16:27:03 GTB Daylight Time 2009 * Version 2.30 released. * Correct operation when the PDF::API2 module is not available. * Dropped the deprecated compact dl attribute. The appearance of the lsit can be controlled through the bib2xhtml CSS style. (Pointed by Mark Jelasity.) * Correct handling of cross references containing tildes. (Pointed by Ken Pierce.) * Escape XML-special characters appearing in URLs and DOIs. (Pointed by Mark Jelasity.) The last two changes make the gnerated documents pass XHTML validators. Thu Jun 14 17:59:59 2007 * Version 2.26 released. * New -e option for specifying how extended file information is displayed. This can be used for including PDF file icons. * Support for counting the pages of PDF documents (requires PDF::API2). * Document the -D option for specifying file path to URL mappings. Mon May 29 16:57:06 2006 * Version 2.23 released. * Add support for some missing Czech characters (Vasek Smidl). * Correct the handling of the degree symbol and handle \dots (Bruno Salvy) * Prevent tildes in URLs from being converted into spaces. Sun Sep 04 17:27:13 2005 * Version 2.20 released. * The lists generated now contain CSS hooks (class bib2xhtml). The list items are not explicitly separated with

; if you want that behavior, simply add a style entry like the following in the page's header. (suggested by Mark Jelasity) * Correct the handling of circumflex escapes (fix by Mark Jelasity) * Stray & symbols (e.g. in URLs) are converted into & Wed Jul 13 00:06:55 2005 * Version 2.18 released. * New -k option to display in the generated file the original bibtex key together with the label. * Correctly terminate

tag in the numbered styles. * Fix duplicate periods appearing in the XHTML output. * Correct the creation of the compact attribute in
tags. * Support DOI fields lacking a doi or http prefix. * Added support for the \url{} LaTeX command. It is converted into a hypertext link. (Contributed by Mark Jelasity.) Fri Jul 02 01:17:24 2004 * Version 2.12 released. * Added support for a DOI (digital object identifier) bibliography field in the bibliography entries. The DOI will appear in the XHTML bibliograpy in its human readable form, hyperlinked through dx.doi.org. Sat Jun 06 23:09:04 2004 * Version 2.11 released. * Remove output duplication caused by unflushed buffers after a fork. Many thanks to Mark Jelasity for drawing my attention to this problem, and testing the solution. * New -u option to convert LaTeX special characters into the corresponding Unicode characters, and output valid XML coded in UTF-8. Note with this option documents must specify at their top. HTML documents should better also specify and/or arrange with their web server to indicate the UTF-8 encoding as part of the HTTP header. The documents produced by this option may be easier to parse and validate with some XML parsers. * Removed the deprecated -3 option (output HTML-3 character entities). Many HTML entities are now encoded by their symbolic name rather than numerically. * Added http-equiv and Generator tags Wed Apr 07 17:03:43 2004 * Version 2.6 released. * Improved documentaion includes examples. * Clarified the sorting options in the code and the manual page. Sun Apr 04 17:30:17 2004 * Version 2.4 released. * Prevent Win32 filehandle resource leakage introduced in version 2.3. This prevented the final rename operation. Sat Apr 03 12:04:08 2004 * Version 2.3 released. * Changes by Panos Louridas to allow the specification of the citations in-line in the HTML file. Mon Mar 29 15:08:52 2004 Diomidis Spinellis * Version 2.2 released. * Change project name from bib2html into bib2xhtml. Mon Jan 19 10:43:44 2004 Diomidis Spinellis * Version 2.1 released. * bib2html: Corrected the handling of the -b option. Wed Jan 14 21:46:17 2004 Diomidis Spinellis * Version 2.1 released. * Makefile: adjust for new public distribution * gen-bst: Create the named reversedate (nr) style by default * bib2html: Correct the usage information. * bib2html.man: Document a number of missing options. Add HISTORY section. Update for public release of version 2.1 Fri Nov 21 23:38:06 2003 Diomidis Spinellis * html-btxbst.doc: Convert tags and their syntax to make them compatible with XHTML 1.0 * bib2html: Convert HTML output and post processing code to make it compatible with XHTML 1.0 Tue Apr 30 10:17:36 2002 Diomidis Spinellis * bib2html: Add -m option for specifying an additional macro file Add unsortlist format for creating non-sorted empty lists. Fri Apr 24 22:27:56 1998 David Hull * Version 1.33 released. * README: Update THANKS. * bib2html: In plain style, combine with following which may exist because of mailto field in bibliography file. * html-btxbst.doc: Add support for mailto field (thanks to Eric Vinck). Wed Apr 22 21:10:57 1998 David Hull * bib2html: Add -b to pass options through bib2html to bibtex. Yet another try at forking bibtex that works on all systems. Fix pattern for \textasciitilde. Mon Mar 16 18:22:20 1998 David Hull * Version 1.32 released. * README: Updated thanks. * html-btxbst.doc: Fix newlines around postscript, pdf, dvi, and abstract fields (an extra newline was being output). * gen-bst: Fix declaration for cpp (prototype needed to be repeated). * bib2html: Tmp file filename fix for VMS from Martin P. J. Zinser. Thu Feb 26 15:39:11 1998 David Hull * Version 1.31 released. * bib2html: Fixed some "use of uninitialized value" warnings, thanks to Martin P.J. Zinser. * bib2html: Fix a "use of unitialized value" bug. Use unicode characters for m-dash and n-dash instead of — and –, because they seem to be supported by more browsers. Wed Feb 11 19:22:30 1998 David Hull * bibsearch: Perl 5.004 apparently requires that -T switch be first. Wed Jan 21 21:08:52 1998 David Hull * bib2html: Allow user-specified BibTeX style (.bst) file. This required allowing the .bst file to specify what label type to use with it. * html-btxbst.doc: Add label-style definitions to begin.bib. Thu Jan 8 19:45:43 1998 David Hull * Version 1.30 released. * bib2html: Fix link problem for postscript (and other) files when URL is given (thanks to Aki Vehtari). Change pattern for ^ and _ expansion. * README: Update bibtex mode information (thanks to Aki Vehtari). Tue Oct 14 16:34:56 1997 David Hull * Version 1.29 released. * bib2html: Add -D option to define URL to directory mappings. * gen-bst: Fix REVERSEBYDATE -> REVERSEDATE. Fri Jun 27 20:19:53 1997 David Hull * bib2html: Translate \textasciitilde. Better search pattern for fixing . Thu Jun 5 17:06:19 1997 David Hull * Version 1.28 released. * README: Update thanks. * html-btxbst.doc: Use organization field for Authors: comment if entry has neither author or editor field. * bibsearch: Fix bug: entry was not being skipped correctly if it didn't have an Authors: comment. Fri Apr 4 20:13:31 1997 David Hull * Version 1.27 released. * gen-bst: Convert gen-bst from a shell script that calls CPP to a Perl script that implements "just enough" CPP to do the job. * README: Update Thanks section. * html-btxbst.doc: Change "et al." to "et~al." in format.lab.names. * html-btxbst.doc: Simplify the CPP statements a little so that my fake Perl CPP interpreter can handle them. * bib2html: Get rid of fork and open of /dev/null so that bib2html will run on non-UNIX platforms. Fri Mar 14 15:31:31 1997 David Hull * bibsearch: Make compatible with perl 4 again. Tue Mar 4 21:56:50 1997 David Hull * Version 1.26 released. Tue Feb 18 18:46:30 1997 David Hull * bib2html: Fix: open /dev/null for OHTMLFILE if no old HTML file exists. Get mode differently. Tue Feb 11 15:30:35 1997 David Hull * bib2html: Fix "unitialized value" warning with pageCount. Fri Feb 7 21:05:03 1997 David Hull * Version 1.25 released. * bib2html: Add -w flag to perl. * README: Warn about change to bibsearch. Fri Feb 7 20:42:03 1997 David Hull * bibsearch: No longer do path translation on database ourselves, but rely on server to do it in PATH_TRANSLATED environment variable. This increases the security of bibsearch (or at least moves the problem into the http server instead of in bibsearch). Code cleanup so that "-w" doesn't cause complaints. Fri Jan 31 21:51:29 1997 David Hull * bibsearch: More informative error message when unable to open database. Default values for $open_list and $close_list. Correct error in determining list type (was giving up too soon in looking for beginning of list). Fri Jan 24 17:46:11 1997 David Hull * bib2html: Add '\ ' to ' ' translation (was getting translated to ''). * html-btxbst.doc: Fix str.to.int. The logic was completely wrong. What could I have been thinking of? * bib2html: In a regular expression, "." doen't match newline, and so some patterns weren't matching that should. I replaced the "." with [^\001]. An alternative would have been to add the /s option, but that would have only worked under Perl 5. Wed Jan 22 19:29:33 1997 David Hull * html-btxbst.doc: Add str.to.int function, to convert string to integer. Add REVERSEDATE support, to sort into reverse chronological order. Add SORTBYYEAR support, to sort first by year and then by author. * bib2html.man: Describe new -c and -r options. * README: Describe how to generate .bst files for -c and -r options. * bib2html: It's the -c option, not the -y option. * gen-bst: Add support for -r and -c options. * bib2html: Add new -c and -r options. * gen-bst: Initial revision * bib2html: Correct patterns for accented characters. They were sometimes incorrectly swallowing the following space. Thu Jan 9 16:15:48 1997 David Hull Version 1.24 released. * bib2html: Remove blank line in comment at beginning of bibliography (introduced yesterday) that confused bibsearch. Wed Jan 8 17:12:37 1997 David Hull Version 1.23 released. * bib2html: Output command line used to generate bibliography as comment in HTML file. Fix a problem with the pattern that was used to ensure that the contents of the A NAME tag in the empty style weren't empty. Be more careful about &emdash; and &endash;. Tue Dec 17 15:57:05 1996 David Hull * README: *** empty log message *** * bib2html: Move "require 'ctime.pl'" to the top of the file. It was causing an error in perl 4 where it was. Tue Nov 26 15:40:03 1996 David Hull * Version 1.22 released. * bib2html: Fix \aa -> å. Start up perl explicitly if $running_under_some_shell. Thu Sep 26 22:47:10 1996 David Hull * bib2html: Add count of number of references to timestamp. Wed Aug 7 14:42:33 1996 David Hull * bib2html: Added \circ to degree symbol translation for math mode. Tue Jul 30 21:04:15 1996 David Hull * bibsearch: Improve documentation. Tue Jul 30 20:30:36 1996 David Hull * Version 1.20 released. * bib2html: Handle LaTeX inline math \( ... \). Tue Jul 30 19:46:46 1996 David Hull * bib2html: Only do superscript and subscript processing in inline math mode. Make -w be quiet about identifier used only once warnings. Fix syntax error in \, pattern. Tue Jul 30 19:13:56 1996 David Hull * bib2html.man: Say how to produce ~'s in bibliography. * bib2html: Do proper matching on curly braces. This involved changing all of the patterns that matched on any curly braces. Add (null) translations for a hacek, macron, and dot accents. Be more careful on \par translation. Add crude superscript and subscript support. Doesn't check to make sure it's inside math mode. More translations: \, \ldots etc. Mon Jul 8 20:27:41 1996 David Hull * Version 1.19 released. * bibsearch: Fix bugs in iso8859-1 mapping to plain ASCII. Fri Jul 5 20:34:00 1996 David Hull * Version 1.18 released. * README: Update installation instructions. * bib2html: Fix handling of \i, the dotless i, in accents. * bib2html: Be more careful when translating accent commands to not generate invalid ISO8859-1 HTML character entities. Translate \l to l and \L to L. * bibsearch: Update example of form to use to call bibsearch. Add mapping for ISO characters to map them to ASCII. Read database a line at a time instead of a paragraph at a time so that we can't miss the beginning of a bibliography when there is more than one bibliography in a database. Print "no matches found" message when no matches are found. Wed Jul 3 14:49:30 1996 David Hull * Version 1.17 released. * bib2html: BibTeX was wrapping the postscript, pdf, and dvi comments. Modify the grep patterns to account for it. Mon Jul 1 19:15:10 1996 David Hull * Version 1.16 released. * README: Update thanks. * html-btxbst.doc: Also add links for url entries in book-like titles (format.btitle). * bib2html: Suppress extra white space after TeX macros. Mon Jun 24 15:04:40 1996 David Hull * Version 1.15 released. * bib2html: Fix translation of \'{\i} and \ss. Fri Jun 7 15:49:51 1996 David Hull * Version 1.14 released. * bib2html: Fix error in circumflex grep pattern. Thu Apr 18 02:48:52 1996 David Hull * Version 1.13 released. * bib2html: More changes for Perl 5. Wed Apr 17 17:56:42 1996 David Hull * bibsearch, bib2html: Small cleanups to make perl -w happy. Mon Apr 15 12:16:43 1996 David Hull * Version 1.12 released. Wed Apr 10 17:42:22 1996 David Hull * html-btxbst.doc: In entries that have no author field, emit an HTML comment with the editors instead. * bibsearch: Fix: If author search was requested, and bibliography entry had no Authors: comment, it matched. Now it doesn't match. Mon Apr 8 21:37:31 1996 David Hull * bibsearch: Handle more than one bibliography in a HTML file. Fix error in determining list type. * bibsearch: Fix: make type of generated bibliography list match the type of the bibliography list in the original document. * html-btxbst.doc: Eliminate useless comma in label in named style with no year specified. * bib2html: Attempt to eliminate extra periods at ends of blocks. Fri Apr 5 22:03:03 1996 David Hull * Version 1.11 released. * README: *** empty log message *** * bib2html: Be more careful about removing redundancy in crossrefs. * bib2html: Only go to end of line when getting text to put inside A NAME tag. Remove \rm and \textrm commands (there's no easy way to handle them). Add improved macro handling from Joe Wells. * bib2html: In plain style, be more careful about not enclosing another HTML element when fixing empty NAME anchor. * html-btxbst.doc: Update comments. Add

tag at end of bibliography entry. Use \citelabel instead of \cite to refer to other bibliography entries. * bib2html: Change \cite processing. A \cite is now expanded so that the label is a link to the entry the \cite refers to. A \citelabel expands to only the label, without the link. This is accompanied by a corresponding change in the bst style files so that bib2html does not create nested links. * html-btxbst.doc: Initial revision * bib2html: Cleanup: escape more { and } in regex patterns. Add support for math font handling from Joe Wells. * bib2html: Fix: escape { and } in regex patterns. Simplify accent and greek character replacement patterns. * bib2html: Bug in \cite processing was sometimes creating nested A HREF tags. Back off on converting \cite entries to links until I can figure out a way to prevent the nesting. Mon Apr 1 18:39:41 1996 David Hull * bib2html: Add translation for \htmladdnormallinkfoot{text}{url}. * bib2html: Make \cite crossrefs be hyperized in more cases. * bib2html: Translate \htmladdnormallink{text}{url}. Mon Feb 26 16:50:45 1996 David Hull * README: Update THANKS. * bib2html: Add new -h option. Output some boilerplate HTML when creating a new HTML file from scratch. * bib2html.man: Document new -h option. * Version 1.10 released. Mon Feb 5 20:40:17 1996 David Hull * html-n.bst: Fix spacing around "et al." in labels. * bib2html: Remove \n is regexp for finding citations and labels. This was causing problems on entries with no authors. Wed Jan 24 21:04:07 1996 David Hull * bib2html: Get rid of -A option. Instead use file extension of source file (.aux or .bib) to determine input file type. * bib2html.man: Document new unsort bibliography style. * Version 1.9 released. Wed Jan 24 18:51:04 1996 David Hull * html-u.bst: Add RCS header. * html-n.bst, html-a.bst: Change spacing in output. * bib2html: Add unsort bibliography style. Add -A option to read an already-existing .aux file for citations instead of using all citations from one bibtex bibliography file. Be a little more careful about removing "scratch" files. * html-u.bst: Initial revision Tue Jan 23 19:11:51 1996 David Hull * bib2html: Bibtex sometimes inserts "%\n" to break long lines. Remove it. * html-a.bst, html-n.bst: Don't output Authors: comment if author is empty. * README: Update thanks. * Version 1.8 released. Wed Dec 20 23:19:39 1995 David Hull * README: Update thanks. * bib2html.man: Update FILES section. Document -v option. * bibsearch: Bug fix: did some pattern substitutions on author names in the wrong order. * Version 1.7 released. Fri Dec 15 23:15:17 1995 David Hull * bib2html: Oops! Fixed recent \~{} fix. Fri Dec 15 22:48:45 1995 David Hull * bib2html: Handle \char'377, \char"ff, and \char255 by converting to ÿ. * bib2html: Fix handling of \~{}, which should produce a ~ in the output. Thu Dec 7 21:44:44 1995 David Hull * bib2html.man: Document new named style. * README: Update installation instructions. * bib2html 1.6 released. Thu Dec 7 21:00:59 1995 David Hull * html-n.bst: Initial revision * html-a.bst: Changed name from html.bst to html-a.bst to indicate that this is used for the alpha html style. * bib2html: Handle postscript, pdf, and dvi tags that are URLs. At his point, we handle them by pretty much ignoring them, and not attempting to get the file size or number of pages. Add named ([Hull, 1995]) style. Use this style as the basis for the empty (bulletted) and plain ([1]) styles, because it results in a more sensible alphabetization than the named style does. Produce better cross-referenced citations. Fri Nov 3 18:35:44 1995 David Hull * bib2html: Add version (-v) option. Remove incorrect \rm mapping. Add LaTeX2e-style font commands (\textit{}, etc). Fri Oct 27 21:05:45 1995 David Hull * bib2html 1.5 released. * bibsearch: Add author search. Keyword search is no longer straight grep pattern. Built-in help. * bib2html: Oops! Missing "#". Thu Oct 26 17:26:17 1995 David Hull * README: Update Thanks. * bib2html: htmlfile argument is now optional. If it is not specified, the bibliography is written to stdout. Give usage message if an improper number of arguments is specified. * bib2html.man: htmlfile argument is now optional. Tue Oct 17 18:41:55 1995 David Hull * html.bst: Add url field, a replacement for html field. * bib2html.man: Document url field, a replacement for html. * bib2html: Change \cite{} retain original cite key if citation is not found. Swallow up space after \rm, \it, \em, or \tt. * README: More people to thank.... * bibsearch: Fix error in HREF qualification. * bib2html: Fix: move ~ ->   translation to after \~ translation. Mon Oct 16 22:18:38 1995 David Hull * html-abs.bst.diffs: Initial revision * html.bst: Use \cite{} in crossref instead of [[]]. * bib2html.man: Document new delimiter (-d delim) option. * bib2html: Citations were being formatted incorrectly in alpha style. Fixed. Expand \cite{} so that citations are allowed anywhere in entry. Add delimiter (-d delim) option. Mon Oct 16 19:41:35 1995 David Hull * bib2html.man: Document new "-s style" option. * bib2html: Check options and print usage message if illegal option. Change $htmldir derivation. * bib2html: Add support for plain and alpha bibliography styles. * html.bst: Generate alpha labels instead of plain labels. Code stolen from alpha.bst. * html.bst: Support both empty (

  • ) and plain (
    [nn]
    • ) lists. Show crossref field in cross references. Fri Oct 6 18:50:20 1995 David Hull * html-abs.bst, html.bst: Fix crossref code for HTML. * bib2html: Remove empty crossrefs. * README: Update emacs and thanks sections. * bibsearch: Fix relative URLs () so that they still work. * bib2html.man: Document new abstract (-a) option. * bib2html: Add \par to

    conversion for abstracts. Fix another bug in deriving $htmldir. Thu Oct 5 21:02:31 1995 David Hull * README: Added "Thanks" section. * bib2html: Oops! Lost command line processing. Put call to Getopt() back in. Add -a option, which puts abstract in HTML file. Add more LaTeX to HTML character entity translations. * html-abs.bst: Initial revision Wed Oct 4 19:32:45 1995 David Hull * bib2html.man: Mention support for compressed and gzipped files. Wed Oct 4 19:18:27 1995 David Hull * bib2html 1.3 released. * bib2html: Printing warning if paper is not found. * bib2html.man: Added under "BUGS": requires dviselect. * bib2html: Removed debugging prints. * bib2html: Generalized parsing of paper files. Added support for DVI files. Fixed bug: were deriving $htmldir incorrectly. * html.bst: Add dvi field type. Wed Oct 4 15:32:07 1995 David Hull * bib2html 1.2 released. * README: Initial revision Tue Oct 3 23:16:50 1995 David Hull * bib2html: Added redistribution under GNU Public License. * bib2html.man: Document new postscript and pdf field handling, and changed html field handling. * html.bst: Added pdf bibtex tag. * bib2html: Added pdf bibtex tag. Improved PostScript file parsing. Automagically handle compressed (.Z) and gzipped (.z and .gz) files. Mon Oct 2 23:50:09 1995 David Hull * html.bst: Added postscript bibtex tag. * bib2html: Added postscript bibtex tag. Added postscript file parsing to get file size and number of pages. Mon Sep 11 20:43:04 1995 David Hull * bib2html.man: Document new -3 option. * bib2html: Add limited support for translation of TeX greek to HTML 3.0 greek entities. Add – and — entities. These translations are enabled by the command line option "-3". Fri Aug 25 18:40:36 1995 David Hull * bib2html 1.1 released. Fri Aug 25 13:44:27 1995 David Hull * html.bst: Change name anchor so that it no longer encloses entire entry. That sometimes creates nested anchor tags, which is bad HTML. Instead, create an empty name anchor, and bib2html will try to fix it. * html.bst: Change order of

  • and to produce conforming HTML. * bib2html: Try to move close tag of empty name anchors () so that they are not empty. Some browsers don't handle empty anchors correctly.