Re: Can't get refdbib to work

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 04:06:04PM +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Josef Karthauser <[email protected]> was heard to say:
> 
> > Sure.  See the attached.  It looks like it might be complaining about a
> > missing style, however I couldn't find anything in the documentation
> > which talked about setting up styles for bibtex output;
> 
> Looks like an omission from the docs. Even bibtex output requires one of two
> very simple styles: bibtex-full and bibtex-abbrev. You can use these to control
> whether the journal names are printed in full or if you prefer the abbreviated
> names - something that is hard to achieve in bibtex alone. Add these styles to
> your refdb database, and the error should go away.
> 
> BTW did you set up RefDB manually? The refdb-init script should load all
> available styles to avoid this problem.

Ahha.  I didn't find the refdb-init script, but I found the style files
in the distribution and used 'refdba' to load them manually.

It now works using

    % refdbib -d joe -S bibtex-abbrev -t bibtex tc.aux > tc.bib

The installation I got was from the FreeBSD ports system.

> > it would also be
> > useful for revdbib to report the reason for the error if this is the
> > case.
> >
> 
> There is certainly some wiggle room for improvements! I'll try to figure out
> something appropriate. Would you mind posting a feature request on the
> SourceForge RefDB site to remind me?
> 

I'll do that in due course.

Thanks,
Joe

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