On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:02 AM, David Bickel
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I keep my .bib files on Dropbox so I can easily work from multiple computers.
>
> Is there a way that I can set the preferences on my Macintosh to use a
> different .bib path by default? This needs to be done without
> specifying the whole path in the LyX file.
>
> On Windows, this is accomplished by modifying the BIBINPUTS
> environment variable, but I do not know how to do something like that
> with MacOS.

On Linux the following works:
export BIBINPUTS=/path/to/dir
I thought environment variables worked the same on Mac. I'm not sure
what the best way is to have that run everytime. Is there a
/etc/environment file on Macs?
To test that it works, just do
kpsewhich -var-value BIBINPUTS
after to see where bibtex will look.

Scott

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