[OS X TeX] citation in text fail to appear as expected

David Watson dewatson at me.com
Sat May 19 15:06:40 CEST 2012


On May 19, 2012, at 7:59 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> 
> On May 19, 2012, at 7:52 AM, konstantinos vasilakos wrote:
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>> 
>> Hi, 
>> it seems somehow that every time I want to create the citation + bibliography I need to replace the .bib in my directory by a new exported one, that way seems to rectify itself and create the proper file. 
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>> Makes me wonder should be that complicated or do I miss something here?
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> 
>> Konstantinos Vasilakos 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Bibtex never writes to a .bib file so there should be no problem re-using the .bib file. When you say ``replace the .bib file... by a new exported one'' what do you mean? ``Exported'' from what?
> 

I believe the original poster may be exporting individual citations in .bib format from citeulike.com.
It would probably be better if he used Bibdesk to create the .bib file used in his document, and take the citeulike-*******.bib file snippets and drag them into bibdesk.

> What you are describing is NOT normal behavior so I don't think it has anything to do with the TeX distribution or TeXShop, etc.
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> Can you create a minimal but compilable set of files that you can let us have to see what you are doing and what is happening?
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> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
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