JCite Version History

JCite 1.13.0

Better

• Can now cite text without the additional surrounding pre code markup, or even without any post-processing.

Fixed

• Works with JDK 7 now. Sadly, you now have to specify the source search path separately to JCite using -J-Djcitesourcepath=..., and it System.exits on errors since it cannot use the proper error messager anymore.

JCite 1.12.0

Better

• Can now cite Java code without syntax highlighting.

JCite 1.11.0

Better

• Documented how to extend JCite. Refactored a lot to make this more straightforward.

JCite 1.10.3

Better

• Minor fixes and updates to documentation and build process.

JCite 1.10.2

Better

• Added -pp/--project-path option to command-line API.
• Improved speed of Excel citing (caches loaded spreadsheets).
• Improved error reporting (by idlsoft).

Fixed

• NPE when logging exceptions.
• Handling of trailing whitespace (by idlsoft).

JCite 1.10.1

Better

• Error values like #NUM! are now cited more properly.

Fixed

• Now handles multiple similar options like strip correctly. Used to only honour the last one.

JCite 1.10.0

New

• You can now cite file paths and snippets out of plain text and XML/HTML files.
• Switched from Subversion (svn) to Mercurial (hg) for version control.

JCite 1.9.2

Better

• Ant task accepts newline string to use for tripwire database (tripwireNewLine).

Fixed

• Usage and JavaDoc documentation fixed; need more jars on the classpath.

JCite 1.9.1

Better

• Escape HTML entities properly when citing Excel formulas and cell values.
• Updated JExcelAPI to 2.6.4.
• Fixed plain style example.

JCite 1.9

New

• Added support for tripwire databases.
• Added Ant task.
• Added the bash script bin/jcite to run JCite from the command line in Linux.
• You can specify multiple input paths/patterns. Simply repeat the -i switch.

Better

• Errors in citations are now reported with proper file and line information. JCite no longer aborts after the first error, either. Failed citation instructions are left in the file as-is.
• JCite reports the input spec its processing and final statistics unless in quiet mode.
• Using -o file no longer fails because no parent folder was specified for file (see bug #1708328).
• The JavaDoc taglet no longer defaults to verbose mode.

JCite 1.8

New

• Can now format inline blocks (rather than citing them from sources). See the samples page for details.
• Added option to cite Excel formulas only (rather than citing current value + formula). See the Excel page for details.

Better

• The Java source code highlighter now inserts additional spaces in situations where a highlighted and an non-highlighted letter or digit would be adjacent. This works around an Eclipse code formatter quirk.

JCite 1.7

New

• Added option to cite entire class files.

Better

• Excel named ranges always listed in alphabetically ascending order.

JCite 1.6

New

• Split processing logic into central class JCite and multiple JCitelets.
• Added support for loading plugins as instances of JCiteletProvider using sun.misc.Service.
• Added plugin for citing Excel sheets.
• Added citelet for citing plain text/HTML snippets.

Better

• Citation instructions embedded within pre and code tags now strip both of these tags. More precisely, the inner tag is always stripped and if the next outer tag is a pre tag (without anything intervening), then it is stripped too.
• Switched documentation sources from a proprietary solution to Rextile.

JCite 1.5

New

• Recursive folder processing – you can let JCite process source files from entire folder hierarchies in one go.

JCite 1.4

New

• JavaDoc support – you can cite source code within doc comments with the {.jcite …}@ tag.

Better

• Inline markers like /* tag */ are now also recognized as /*tag*/. This makes source code with inline markers more compact.
• The /**/ tag is automatically recognized as a highlight marker, unless it has been overridden by one of the strip (formerly use) or omit instructions, as in jc:temp.MyClass:---- marker; strip.
• JCite does not print its banner when the command-line option -q is present.

Changed

• The instruction use <tag> has been renamed to strip <tag>.
• JCite no longer lists the citation markers processed, unless explicitly told to do so using the -v command-line option.

Earlier Versions

... were used only by me. I did not keep a version history for them.