File menu

just the common File commands :)

NEW

Chooses a name for the file and checks if it does not already exists

OPEN

Opens a file

SAVE

Saves an opened file

SAVE AS

Saves under a different name

SAVE DELETED RECORDS

The records deleted with were pushed to a separate array of hashes. You can save that array as a different file.

CLOSE

Closes an opened file, but only if it was saved

QUIT

Closes the program without checking if the loaded file was saved

Edit menu

APPEND

Displays a set of buttons on the left side of the program window, replacing the citation keys index, so you can choose what type of entry you want to append. Pressing on a button saves the buffer, then adds a new record to the buffer, and creates a form for the entry whose name is written on the button.

DELETE RECORD

Deletes the current record and displays the next one, or, if the end of the file was reached, the previous record.

DROP DELETED RECORDS

Undefines the array where the deleted records were stored. If you do, there is no way of recovering them.

CHANGE ENTRY TYPE

Displays a combo list from which you can choose another entry type for the current record. A new form is displayed, with the old data in it. If there are fields in the old entry that do not appear in the new one, those fields are not deleted. I guess BibTeX ignores them, or if you think it does not, you can delete them by hand :)

Browse menu

REREAD BUFFER

Moves to the first record, closes the ``Append'' buttons and re-displays the citation keys index

BROWSE BY CITATION KEY

Duplicate citation keys are listed at the end. Click on an entry to display the record in the form on the right side. Choose to close the append buttons and re-display the index.

BROWSE BY AUTHOR

You can check if the are misspelled names

BROWSE BY TITLE

To check for duplicate records by looking for duplicate titles.

BROWSE BY JOURNAL

To check for misspelled words and make sure the there are no duplicate abbreviations.

SEARCH

Searches in all the fields and displays an index in the left side clist.

Regular expressions can be used as search terms, but it does not replace or translate.

PREVIOUS RECORD

Go to the previous record

NEXT RECORD

Go to the next record

Selection menu

UN-SELECT ALL

Unselect all records that were previously selected, and go to the first record in the file.

SELECT ALL

Select all records and go to the first record in the file.

SAVE SELECTED RECORDS

Save the selected records in a new file.

EXPORT SELECTED RECORDS AS LATEX

In case there is no BibTeX style to suit your needs, you can export records as LaTeX bibitems, to use in the ``thebibliography'' environment.

I am working now at a list of youth movements in the Romanian Kingdom between 1860 and 1916, and I use it to put bibliography at the end of the paragraphs dedicated to each youth society (I have to delete the ``\bibitem{...}''), and for the final \thebibliography.

It does not sort the records.

DELETE SELECTED RECORDS

Deletes the selected records and moves to the first record in the file that was not deleted.

Test

Prints some variables to STDOUT

Help

Some online help

Navigation bar

Well, the Previous record and the Next record buttons, the Select button, a counter that starts at 0, and a Go to entry, where you can type a number and press in order to go to the record whose number you chose.

Index

Click on an item in the list to display the record it belongs to.

Use it for sorting the records or for finding duplicate or incomplete records.