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V1.3.9 — allow shift+control to copy the bookends:// link as text in becite, betitle and beall

Full Changelog: https://github.com/iandol/bookends-tools/compare/V1.3.7...V1.3.9

becite/betitle/beall/bebib: allow ⌘⌥ [command][option] to open an attached PDF directly.

• bebib: make sure this tool uses the citeUsesRTF Alfred environment variable so you can choose RTF or plain text output.
• There is also a new tool, beconvert, which is only useful if you want to convert author-date formatted citations in e.g. Word (like (Barlow et al., 1963)) to temp bibtex key intext citations. This really depends on your BibTeX keys also conforming to [authordate], it will not work for other cases. It does check if the key exists in the bookends database, and if there are multiple possible keys (like barlow1963 / barlow1963a / barlow1963b) they will all be pasted in and you must select which is appropriate.

betobibtex: Add a workflow variable customExportFormat which allows you to specify a customised BibTeX formatter, default is the builtin BibTeX.fmt, but for example you can make a modified format removing address and abstract that makes export faster and the resultant files much smaller. You can find my BibTeX-Minimal.fmt here: https://gist.github.com/iandol/b8649aa8375e59902f88f00c3c64c294 — download it and add it to your Bookends custom format folder, then set customExportFormat to the same name as this format, and this will be used. I suspect technically you can even specify any format, even non-BibTeX ones so could use this setting to hack exports to RIS etc.

A few releases back (~V13.2), Bookends added a dedicated Quick Add[1] Applescript command. I couldn't get it to work in the background at the time and continued to use GUI scripting. Thanks to a hint from @bcdavasconcelos I realised it was a problem in my code, and this works fine in the background, so I upgraded bequickadd to use this more efficient and reliable command method.

Also fixing #8 for betobibtex, if there is an error when pandoc-citeproc tries to convert the BibTeX to JSON, the user will be warned with a display notification and the BibTeX will not be deleted so the user can check it.

[1] Quick add is the very nice feature when you can select a DOI/PMID/etc. number in any app (e.g. your browser, or PDF reader) and quickly add it to your bookends database without disrupting your workflow...

• Update the applescript interface used to control Bookends to use the new events system that is faster.
• Better error checking when fetching the scopus API data, and working round an annoying Ruby error when the system proxy is set,
• Added a new environment variable scopusBaseURL to specify a replacement base url prefix, if for e.g. you access Scopus through a proxy. For example, the default address is https://www.scopus.com but my institution accesses through https://www-scopus-com-443.webvpn.las.ac.cn/ so I set that and URLs get rewritten to use the new base URL.

Small fix for betoopml…

1.3.1 — bequick: don't "hide" bookends, rather refocus previous app…

bequick: small tweak to hide bookends after triggering "quick-add", giving focus back to your browser.

• I've added a new workflow variable tempCitationStyle that sets the default (pressing return directly) temporary citation format for becite / betitle / beall. When unset it will be the default Bookends standard {author,year,#id}, but you can set the variable to Pandoc / MMD / LaTeX to paste the citation in a different format ([@key] / [#key] / \\cite[]{key}). This adds more possible formats than is possible with using the key modifiers (which are still available if you use them).
• Also if the authors field is empty for a reference, we now try to use editor names instead in the Alfred results list.