Re: refdbib: multiple occurence of the same reference ends up in multiple entries in .bib file

"O. Hartmann" <[email protected]> was heard to say:

> Dear Sirs,
> I have some trouble in creating my bibliography using a refdb-database.
> My text is spread over several files, connected via \input{} statements
> in a main head-file. Running latex/pdflatex on the head file, creates an
> .aux files, which is used by refdbib as input. refdbib then retrieves
> for each entry the appropriate reference from the SQL DB (postgresql 8.4
> server on a FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE platform) - but there a multiple
> occurences of the same reference, exactly as many as \cite't in the main
> text. Is this a feature or a bug?

This might be a documentation bug. If you use refdbib directly instead  
of the runbib script, you have to eliminate duplicates from the .aux  
file manually. The runbib script does this by passing the contents of  
the .aux file through sort and uniq. You can pipe the results directly  
into refdbib. Have a look at the runbib script as a guidance (search  
for the block of code starting with "### BibTeX"), or use that script  
instead of doing it manually. I'll add a note about this problem to  
the RefDB manual.

regards,
Markus


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Markus Hoenicka
http://www.mhoenicka.de
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