Re: BibTeX question: How to make the .aux file

[Tobias Burnus <tobias.burnus@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hello,

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:05:58PM -0500, Matthias Weber wrote:
> I have reached the stage that I would like to include citations into my 
> book, and I found the bib module at
> http://www.elvenkind.com/~taco/bibmod/
I think this is the latest publicly available version. (I know that
Taco has an improved beta version though.)

> I think I added the correct commands to my source files, and I have 
> even figured out that I should put the files in the bib module distribution
> near my own tex files.
Well, I've put them into $HOME/texmf/{tex/context/user,bibtex/bst}, as
long as TeX can find them any place is ok.

> Now, when TeXing the whole thing, I get a dummy citation at the right 
> place, but no bibliography at the end. This is no miracle, as I didn't 
> see bibtex running. From my LaTex prehistory, I would have expected 
> that an .aux file is generated, which isn't.
This should be the case: tex should create a \jobname.aux which simply
causes a 'dump' of the the whole .bib file into .bbl

> I understand that I have to run bibtex manually at some point, too.
Yes, texexec --once file; bibtex file.aux; texexec file
should work.

> My layout file contains
> \setuppublications[numbering=yes,sort=author]
This chooses the bst file ... 

> \setupbibtex[database=minbib,sort=author]
And this should create a .aux file which asks for minbib.bib.


Sorry, I don't have any hint other than: It works for me:
 \usemodule[bib]
 \setupbibtex[database=thesis] % use thesis.bib
 \setuppublications[alternative=aps] % you don't have the 'aps' choice, yet
 \setuppublications[numbering=yes,refcommand=num]

Tobias