Re: Select and insert multiple bibliography entries into one \cite command with regexp search.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 8:17 AM Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl@yandex.ru> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> ** Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> [2021-08-12 21:45:21 +0200]:
>
> > Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 8:41 PM Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl@yandex.ru> wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>> The advice is simple: don't use full path, try to put your bibtex files 
> >>> into
> >>> $HOME/texmf/bibtex/bib/hongyi/
> >>
> >> This will work by just using the bibliography file name, but it still
> >> can't let the `C-c [' find the bib file:
> >>
> >> werner@X10DAi:~$ ls $HOME/texmf/bibtex/bib/hongyi/
> >> sample.bib
>
> > Which brings us back to[1]:
>
> >     (setq reftex-bibpath-environment-variables
> >           '("/home/werner/texmf/bibtex/bib/hongyi//"))
>
> I would suggest a bit different approach, if we go the
> '$HOME/texmf/bibtex/bib/hongyi' way:
>
>   (setq reftex-use-external-file-finders t)
>   (setq reftex-external-file-finders
>     '(("bib" . "kpsewhich -format=.bib %f")))
>
> It is described on the same "page" as 'reftex-bibpath-environment-variables'.

Yes. It also does the trick. However, this approach requires that the
bib files must be stored in directories that conform to the "TeX
Directory Structure" standard [1].

[1] https://tug.org/tds/

> > Best, Arash (who didn't test his advice)
>
> > Footnotes:
> > [1]  https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/reftex.html#SEC48
>
> P.S. We didn't even suggest to use symlink!
>
> ---
> WBR, Vladimir Lomov

Hongyi