General ⇒ Bibliography File Path relative to Home with Tilde

[cosmicraga]

Hi,

Can I use the bib file path using the tilde (~).

For example, I cannot use \bibliography{~/Bib/RefAbv} where my bibliography file name is "RefAbv.bib". It gives warnings about undefined citations. I do not want to use \bibliography{/home/username/Bib/RefAbv}.

I use DropBox. So if I can use tilde, then synchronization is perfect. I can work in any machine without changing the path of my bibliography files.

Also I do not want to put the bibliography file in my working directory.

I am using Ubuntu 12.04.

[dmbortz]

Check out this interaction on TeX.SX. I think it will answer your question.

To be more precise, what I've done is make a symbolic link from ~/texmf/bibtex/bib/mypersonalbibfile.bib to the bibliography file on DropBox. Then you just need this line in your source file and BibTeX will find your bib database.

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\bibliography{mypersonabibfile}

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