Everyone, thank you for your help with setting the preferences on a Macintosh to use BibPath, a different .bib path by default.
Based on the links you provided, this worked for me: 1. > sudo su 2. > vi /etc/launchd.conf 3. Make this a line in that file (no quotes): "setenv BIBINPUTS BibPath" 4. Reboot. David David R. Bickel, PhD Associate Professor Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology Biochem., Micro. and I. Department Mathematics and Statistics Department University of Ottawa 451 Smyth Road Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8M5 http://www.statomics.com Office Tel: (613) 562-5800 ext. 8670 Office Fax: (613) 562-5185 Office Room: RGN 4510F (Follow the signs to the elevator, and take it to the fourth floor. Turn left and go all the way to the end of the hall, and enter the door to the OISB area.) Lab Tel.: (613) 562-5800 ext. 8304 Lab Room: RGN 4501T 2014-04-12 4:07 GMT-04:00 Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net>: > Am 11.04.2014 um 17:02 schrieb David Bickel <davidbickel.com+li...@gmail.com>: > >> 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. > > See here for one possibility: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135688/setting-environment-variables-in-os-x/588442#588442 > > Stephan
