[XeTeX] morewrites and bibtex

[Bruno Le Floch]

Hello,

I'm the author of morewrites, which has to perform various hacks to go
around the hard limitation of the number of TeX output streams (see
the thread that you linked: TeX has not changed in this regard).  My
guess is that it is probably a bug in morewrites.  Please try to make
a reasonably short example, and send it, for instance to me.

Do you have the latest version of morewrites (v0.2e)?  You can check
this by running (Xe/pdf/Lua)LaTeX on the file

    \listfiles
    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{morewrites}
    \begin{document}
    \end{document}

and looking for a line of the form

    morewrites.sty    2013/01/08 v0.2e Always room for a new write

Regards,
Bruno

On 2/8/13, maxwell <maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu> wrote:
> Has anyone noticed a conflict between the 'morewrites' package and
> bibtex?
>
> It appears that there is some sort of problem whereby the <fname>1.aux
> file that bibtex creates gets overwritten (as a zero-length file) when I
> load the morewrites package and run xelatex after bibtex.  The result is
> of course an empty bibliography.
>
> I have a small file that shows this effect, but it would take quite a
> bit more work to make it minimal.  I also don't know if this has
> anything to do with xe(la)tex, or if it's just between morewrites and
> bibtex; I tried running it with LaTeX, but ran into some obscure
> problems.
>
> So my question is whether this is a known problem, or if I should
> pursue creating a minimal example so that someone can fix it (assuming
> it's a bug).  (Googling didn't reveal anything obvious.)  I'm using
> TeXLive 2012, so I don't think this thread:
>     http://www.tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2011-December/022463.html
> is relevant.
>
>     Mike Maxwell