Version 1.4.3 - 2025-08-24

• Prettier error message when failing to convert latex to unicode (issue #20).

Full Changelog: v1.4.2...v1.4.3

Version 1.4.2 - 2025-06-07

• Fix an error when calling load_entry via the python API.

Full Changelog: v1.4.1...v1.4.2

Version 1.4.1 - 2025-03-03

• Deprecate -n / --no-color option, replace it with --color <auto|always|force>
  and environment variables to comply with a standard for CLI color in terminals.

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v1.4.1

Version 1.4.0 - 2024-10-27

• Add command-line tab completion for flags and some choices (field names)
• Simplify and documents ways to call this script from python
• Fix 404 warnings on DOI not found for crossref
• Add --sf --start-from flag and clarify message shown on interrupt, plus show instructions on how to resume. Also display a hint that BTAC can be interrupted after 5 minutes if less than half of all entries are completed (issue #18).
• Progress bar now only show the number of completed entries, not queries (discussion #17 and issue #19)
• Skip queries to sources if they lag behind (>=10 queries remain or >=60s delay between queries) when 2/3rds of the other sources have completed. This avoids having a single source slow down btac considerably. Add the --ns --no-skip flag to disable this behavior.

Full Changelog: v1.3.3...v1.4.0

Version 1.3.3 - 2024-08-07

• No longer set URL fields to https://dx.doi.org/<doi>, instead use this to
  complete the doi field (issue #14)
• New flag -u --copy-doi-to-url to do the reverse, set the URL field (if absent)
  to the DOI.
• Now writes all entries to a temporary file on keyboard interrupt (Ctrl-C) to
  avoid data loss
• Fix 404 warnings on DOI not found for unpaywall
• Fix URL escape missing in path (issue #16)
• Fix duplicate silent flag ignored
• Fix application crash when combining authors (issue #16)
• Fix interaction between --escape-unicode and --protect-uppercase options
• Protect uppercase option now also protects unicode uppercase
• Fix using the --fa / --align-values option leading to empty output

Full Changelog: v1.3.2...v1.3.3

Version 1.3.2 - 2024-04-12

• Add -b --filter-fields-by-entrytype option (issue #13).
• Fix -c / -C flags only filtering queries and not results since 1.3.0
• Fix output of some error messages not displaying entry ID

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Version 1.3.1 - 2024-02-20

• Add -D --diff flag
• Changes to verbose mode output:
  • display per source query counter under the progress bar (hoping to make this even prettier once rsalmei/alive-progress#188 gets resolved)
  • display source list on a new line in final output
• Fix a new error occurring when checking DOIs (issue #12)
• Officially support python 3.12

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.3.1

Version 1.3.0 - 2024-02-05

• Add https://openalex.org/ as a source
• Add https://inspirehep.net/ as a source
• Switch entry merging strategy from "pick from the first source" to a majority
  vote between the sources. Added advanced normalization and smart merge for each field:
  • Authors (and editors) match if they have same last names and, if both first
    names present, the first name of one is equal/an abbreviation of the other.
    Author list match if their intersection is non-empty.
  • Check ISSN and ISBN format and checksums. Convert ISBN to 13 digit version
  • Check URL and DOI format, validate them by querying them online to ensure they
    exist
  • Many fields match with abbreviation detection (journal, institution, booktitle,
    organization, publisher, school and series)
  • Pages format normalized to use -- as separator
  • All other fields match excluding case and punctuation.
• Add new field formatting option:
  • --fu/--escape-unicode to replace unicode character with latex encoding
  • --fpa/--protect-all-uppercase or --fp/--protect-uppercase <field> or
    --FP/--dont-protect-uppercase <field> to protect words containing uppercase
    letters with braces { and } in the given fields fields
• Fix 404 warning on DOIs not found in semantic-scholar and others
• Remove researchr author disambiguation numbers (it would sometimes return
  John Doe 0002, which you don't want in your file)
• Fix author names with von prefix not formatted correctly
• Fix author names with capitalized prefix (De, Von, ...) not formatted correctly
• Fix btac removing capital-preserving brackets and converting to unicode in
  user supplied fields (issue #11).