Re: A path for the Bibliography files
Windows users can create symlinks too. If they're still stuck on XP, you can use junction <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx>(with some messing about); anyone using Vista and up can use the native 'mklink' command for files directly. I do exactly this for my own .bib files in the TEXMF local tree: symlink (or hard link if you prefer) to the source .bib file in Dropbox, under both OS X and Win7. ~:Justin Wood:~ PhD candidate, *Engineering & Energy school*, Murdoch University<http://www.murdoch.edu.au/> On 29 December 2010 07:56, wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: > To: > Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:46:19 +0800 > Subject: Re: A path for the Bibliography files > This advice will mean nothing to Windows users. > EK > > On 12/28/2010 1:08 AM, Vito 'ZeD' De Tullio wrote: > > ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: > > I was hoping to be able to use ONE bib file, to be accessed and updated > by any one of the collaborators. > Your solution will work if I were the only user. We keep the bib files > in a shared folder on a Dropbox (cloud) folder, > > but, as I said, the reference to it is different in Linux and in Windows. > > Use symlinks > > > -- > Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. > Jules and Doris Stein *Research to Prevent Blindness *Professor > *Director*, Center of Excellence for *Computational & System neuroscience, > * > The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM > *Director*, The laboratory of *Visual & Computational Neuroscience* > Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology > The Mount Sinai School of Medicine > One Gustave Levy Place > New York, NY, 10029 > ~:justin.wood <http://civilisationshift.wordpress.com/>:~ ≤ 350ppm CO2<http://350.org>
Re: A path for the Bibliography files
Thanks. We have deserted MikTex in favor of TexLive, which runs on both Linux and Windows. I looked, but it is not obvious how to register a shared folder as a root directory on Texlive. EK On 12/28/2010 10:16 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: I was hoping to be able to use ONE bib file, to be accessed and updated by any one of the collaborators. Your solution will work if I were the only user. We keep the bib files in a shared folder on a Dropbox (cloud) folder, but, as I said, the reference to it is different in Linux and in Windows. As adviced, use symlinks on UNIX. On Windows, people can register the shared folder as a "root directory" in the MikTeX prefs. Jürgen
Re: A path for the Bibliography files
ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: > I was hoping to be able to use ONE bib file, to be accessed and updated > by any one of the collaborators. > Your solution will work if I were the only user. We keep the bib files > in a shared folder on a Dropbox (cloud) folder, > but, as I said, the reference to it is different in Linux and in Windows. As adviced, use symlinks on UNIX. On Windows, people can register the shared folder as a "root directory" in the MikTeX prefs. Jürgen
Re: A path for the Bibliography files
This advice will mean nothing to Windows users. EK On 12/28/2010 1:08 AM, Vito 'ZeD' De Tullio wrote: ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: I was hoping to be able to use ONE bib file, to be accessed and updated by any one of the collaborators. Your solution will work if I were the only user. We keep the bib files in a shared folder on a Dropbox (cloud) folder, but, as I said, the reference to it is different in Linux and in Windows. Use symlinks -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor *Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience,/ The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM *Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/ Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029
Re: A path for the Bibliography files
ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: > I was hoping to be able to use ONE bib file, to be accessed and updated > by any one of the collaborators. > Your solution will work if I were the only user. We keep the bib files > in a shared folder on a Dropbox (cloud) folder, > but, as I said, the reference to it is different in Linux and in Windows. Use symlinks -- By ZeD
Re: A path for the Bibliography files
I was hoping to be able to use ONE bib file, to be accessed and updated by any one of the collaborators. Your solution will work if I were the only user. We keep the bib files in a shared folder on a Dropbox (cloud) folder, but, as I said, the reference to it is different in Linux and in Windows. Ehud On 12/27/2010 01:16 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: I collaborate with various people, some of whom (sadly) still use Windows. Because of the difference in path designation between Linux and Windows, we constantly have to tweak the path reference to the .bib files that are used by a document we are working on: for Windows it is C:/.../share/file.bib , and for Linux is it /home/...share/file.bib It would be nice to be able to set the header of the path in Document Settings. In Preferences I see such things for various thinks, but not for the bibliography files. How do other people deal with that? Put it in the TEXMF tree (/TEXMF/bibtex/bib/), then LaTeX/BibTeX will find it just by the file name. Jürgen -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor *Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience,/ The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM *Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/ Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029
Re: A path for the Bibliography files
ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: > I collaborate with various people, some of whom (sadly) still use Windows. > Because of the difference in path designation between Linux and Windows, > we constantly have to tweak the path reference to the .bib files that > are used > by a document we are working on: for Windows it is C:/.../share/file.bib , > and for Linux is it /home/...share/file.bib > It would be nice to be able to set the header of the path in Document > Settings. > In Preferences I see such things for various thinks, but not for the > bibliography files. > > How do other people deal with that? Put it in the TEXMF tree (/TEXMF/bibtex/bib/), then LaTeX/BibTeX will find it just by the file name. Jürgen
