A BibTeX viewer and editor written in Python and GTK, using python-bibtexparser under the hood.Features include:<ul><li>View, edit, sort, filter, and search BibTeX databases</li><li>View and edit BibTeX strings or import strings from external files</li><li>Customizable editor layouts</li><li>Shortcuts for common actions, such as protecting upper case letters or converting between unicode and LaTeX</li></ul>

Bada Bib!

Bug fixes and code maintenance:<ul><li>Display file name while loading</li><li>Fix bug when pasting the same entry multiple times</li><li>Fix potential crash when no editor is active</li><li>Better code documentation</li></ul>

Use ADW TabView instead of GTK Notebook. This makes for a more consistent look and fixes a couple of minor bugs.

Bug fixes:<ul><li>Update color scheme of BibTeX Source and Abstract field when style is changed from GNOME settings</li><li>Make sure bundled icons adapt to color scheme</li><li>Fix rare error when closing large files</li></ul>

Bug fixes:<ul><li>Unselect filtered-out entries when filter changes</li><li>Properly update editor when adding local strings</li><li>Manually delete closed entry lists to reduce memory usage</li></ul>

Bada Bib! now uses libadwaita, giving it a more modern appearance that better integrates with the GNOME desktop. Other new features include:<ul><li>Optional dark mode</li><li>Line numbers and syntax highlighting for BibTeX source code</li><li>Easier switching between title/upper/lower case</li><li>Nicer preferences window</li></ul>Bug fixes:<ul><li>String imports no longer hang if an open file contains multiple identical entries</li><li>Hopefully fixed a bug where files asked to be reloaded when saving</li><li>No longer create backups for unchanged files</li></ul>

Bug fixes:<ul><li>Fix reloading files that changed on disk</li></ul>

Maintenance and bug fixes:<ul><li>Fix unexpected behavior when applying customizations via right-click menu</li><li>Fix customizations not being available in textview fields</li><li>Flatpak: Update GNOME runtime to 42</li></ul>Known issues:<ul><li>Changing tabs can scroll the entry list vertically, changing entries can scroll it horizontally. This is an upstream bug that will hopefully be fixed in the future.</li></ul>

New features and bug fixes:<ul><li>Select, copy/paste and delete multiple entries at once</li><li>Open files directly from the file manager or via drag and drop</li><li>Access customizations via right-click menu</li><li>Use GTK's file monitor instead of watchgod</li><li>Switching tabs no longer changes the selected entries</li><li>Customizations can be used in all fields again, including the BibTeX source</li></ul>

Use gtk4-update-icon-cache in postinstall script so that it doesn't fail on systems without GTK 3. Thanks @bobby285271 for the patch.

Bada Bib! has been ported to GTK 4. Some minor bugs have been fixed in the process, but otherwise the user-facing changes should be minimal. Please report any new bugs you encounter!

Maintenance release:<ul><li>Allow importing several string files at once</li><li>Code refactoring and cleanup</li></ul>

Reworked file and session management. This fixes many minor bugs and quirks, for example:<ul><li>Fix a bug where the wrong tab is closed</li><li>Allow user to open multiple files at once</li><li>Restore open tab on restart</li><li>Restore tab order on restart</li><li>Avoid showing multiple warnings at the same time</li></ul>

<ul><li>Fix "quit" and "close file" shortcuts</li><li>Add "@online" to list of known entry types</li><li>Add rudimentary support for custom entry types</li></ul>

Bugfix release:<ul><li>Use GTK file chooser in all environments. The native file choosers can cause problems with file names and backups.</li></ul>

<ul><li>New filter dialog</li><li>Add option to clear list of recent files</li><li>Add shortcut to replace hyphen with n-dash</li></ul>

Bugfix release:<ul><li>Warn about fields containing defined and undefined strings</li><li>Work around possible race condition in file watcher</li></ul>

Bada Bib!

View and edit BibTeX entries

Changes in version 0.8.1

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