Hi,

Renaud AUBIN wrote:
>>
>>
> [failing \cite commands in a component file]

I've found the problem, and it is in fact not related to the bib
module (and not really to the project structure either). The real
culprit was a bug in the tuo file loader, triggered by your

   \useencoding[ffr]

in the environment file. Your environment file is loaded *after*
\startproduct (which implies \starttext), and therefore the switch
comes too late. Moving the three french language related lines to
the stop of the actual prd_phd.tex file (before \starttext) solves
the problem.

(What follows is for Hans' benefit mostly)

Nasty little bug, this. I only found it because eventually, I
decided to test the citations using explicit "\in{}[]" and
found out that that didn't work either. I've attached a minimal
file demonstrating the bug.

Here is the problem in the tuo:

   \thisissectionseparator{-} % <= NOTE!
   ....
   \twopassentry{floatdata}{0}{1::1} % <= WRONG, loading of .tuo aborted
   \twopassentry{float}{1}{1}

When I remove either this float, or the \useencoding line, all is fine,
but simple redefining \dosavefloatdata was not enough apparently,
because that did not work.

Cheers, Taco