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Thanks for all the tutorial stuff. I don't know how often I've done exactly this in past but somehow the fact that TexShop doesn't understand when to invoke Bibtex had escaped me.

I have a multichapter document, using \include for each chapter, and have just started to add in references, and no .bbl file is generated despite running LaTeX repeatedly. Here is an edited down version of the master file -- any ideas on what may be preventing the bbl file being generated?

In case ...

The footmisc package could be useful. Refer to the documentation .

This is a nice hint and I tried it to solve a different bunch of problems, but it introduces a new one. The footmisc package doesn't doesn't split long URLs that are wider than the page. I tried the standard trick of adding white ...

I see this problem especially with short lines (e.g., multicolumn academic papers, small paper sizes lik A5): sometimes the line break or right justify algorithm goes wrong and a line runs on too long (especially noticeable in right justify mode).

The problem appears to occur more often if I have a ...

Thanks -- also found
as a simple way to get started.

I'm doing a paperback novel in A5 style (making the margins sensible is a chore but that's another story). On such a small page size, including the word "Chapter" in a chapter heading is a lot of noise. Using:

\documentclass[12pt, a5paper]{book}

Is there an easy way to turn this extra word off ...