[texworks] message from TeXworks user(MiKTeX)

Alessandro Languasco languasc at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 23:48:41 CEST 2012


The easiest solution is to put a symbolic link (symlink) to your .bib file
in the directory of your .tex file.

If you don't know what a symbolik link is, read this page:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

Bests
     Alessandro

On 17/08/2012 21:40, Gilles, Christian wrote:
>
> I'm using texworks with miktex to typeset files on windows (XP).
>
> I have a bib file (mybib.bib) and in my tex file I have the instruction
>
> \bibliography{mybib}
>
> When I put mybib.bib in the same directory as the tex file, everything 
> is fine. But I have many tex directory and only one mybib.bib, so I 
> want to specify a path to the bib file.  Neither (a) setting the 
> TEXINPUTS environment variable to this path, nor (b) using 
> edit->preferences, choosing the Typesetting tab, and adding
>
> *--include-directory=C:/Program  Files/MiKTeX 2.8/bibtex/bib/base* 
>        (that is where I put mybib.bib)
>
> to the set of BibTeX arguments works.  What am I doing wrong?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
>
> Christian Gilles
>
> Senior Vice President
>
> Ally| Capital Markets
>
> 1177 Ave of the Americas / 16th floor
>
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>
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>
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>

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