[XeTeX] XeLaTex and bibliography

[Igor Shenderovich]

Thank you for your response, now it works very well. 

As far as I have googled, there is another way to fix problems with russian babel: just include the package xecyr
in preamble, and everything will be OK. But your way is more convenient due to its generality. 

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:17:58 +0100
Ulrike Fischer <news2 at nililand.de> wrote:

> Am Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:36:21 +0300 schrieb Igor Shenderovich:
> 
> > I have a such test example:
> > 
> > \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> > \usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
> > \usepackage[cm-default]{fontspec} 
> > \usepackage{xunicode} 
> > \usepackage{xltxtra} 
> > \setromanfont{Charis SIL}
> > \usepackage[russian]{babel}
> > \bibliographystyle{hieeetr}
> > 
> > \begin{document}
> > 
> > As far as we know, such theories do not exist \cite{Maldacena1997}.
> > 
> > \bibliography{test}
> > \end{document}.
> > 
> > Error message in log: 
> > 
> > ! Undefined control sequence.
> > \refname ->{\cyr \CYRS 
> >                        \cyrp \cyri \cyrs \cyro \cyrk \ \cyrl \cyri \cyrt \cy...
> > l.1 \begin{thebibliography}{1}
> 
> For russian babel switch to fonts encoded in "LaTeX" style. This doesn't
> work well with xetex as it use unicode. You could try to load the
> encodings before you load fontspec:
> 
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> \usepackage[<whatever encodings you need normaly for russian>]{fontenc}
> \usepackage[russian]{babel}
> \usepackage{xtlxtra} %will load fontspec and xunicode
> 
> But the best is probably to switch to polyglossia instead of babel. 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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With best wishes,
IS