[tex-live] Re: bibtex8

Arne Jørgensen arne.jorgensen at tug.dk
Mon Jun 20 02:54:09 CEST 2005


karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:

>     Was the problem with bibtex8 not finding any files ever solved? 
>
> When I run  bibtex8 sampleart  on the trivial TUGboat sample file
> (http://tug.org/TUGboat/sampleart.ltx), it finds plain.bst and
> tugboat.bib, but that is on GNU/Linux, with the current bibtex8 binary
> for TeX Live.  I can't speak for other platforms.
>
> Can someone with a Windows or Mac box try it, please?  If it fails and
> the problem is not obvious, set the environment variable
> KPATHSEA_DEBUG=-1 before running it, and send the resulting (voluminous)
> output.

Gerben Wierdas i-package TeX (the 2004-version) has a working bibtex8
on my Mac.

Kind regards,
-- 
Arne Jørgensen <http://arnested.dk/>
DK-TUG / Dansk TeX-brugergruppe <http://www.tug.dk/>



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