General ⇒ Bibliography Conflict with Custom Style File

[karirafn]

Hi!

I'm working on my thesis and my university has a LaTeX template package which renames the bibliography chapter from "References" to "Bibliography" and adds it to the table of contents like so

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\renewcommand{\bibname}{Bibliography \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}}

But this causes a conflict between bibtex and amsmath and I get an error if I have both of the following lines in my file

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\usepackage{amsmath}
\bibliography{bib}

where "bib" is the name of my bibliography file. These are the errors I get.

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! Use of \reserved@a doesn't match its definition.\protected@write ...le@protect \edef \reserved@a {\write #1{#3}}\reserved@a ... \begin{thebibliography}{1}
! Use of \reserved@a doesn't match its definition.\protected@write ... #1{#3}}\reserved@a \endgroup\if@nobreak \ifvmode \nobr... \begin{thebibliography}{1}
! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup.\markboth ...d@protected@xdef \@themark {{#1}{#2}}\@temptokena \expandafter ... \begin{thebibliography}{1}

If I comment either one of those out it works fine but I get an error if I leave both of them in.

Can anyone tell me a workaround or an alternative to the renaming line?

Thanks.

[localghost]

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Remarks:

• ToC Entries for e.g. the bibliography with standard classes are usually done with tocbibind. Other classes may have built-in mechanisms.

[karirafn]

Sorry about that, I just really need to get this solved and I wanted to increase my possibilities of getting an answer. The following text is also on TeX.SE.

It seems that the error is more complicated than I thought as I'm not able to reproduce it without using my university's template. Here is the minimum code to get the error.

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{RUMSC}
    
\begin{document}
  \SSE{}
  \MScwhen{Date in English}
  \MScdags{Date in Icelandic}
  \MSctitle{Thesis title in English}
  \MScheiti{Thesis title in Icelandic}
  \MScauthor{Author}
    
  \makeMSc
  \MSctableofcontents
  \startMSc
    
  Text\cite{holman_heat_2010}.

  \bibliographystyle{plain}
  \bibliography{bib}
\end{document}

And a sample of "bib.bib".

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@book{holman_heat_2010,
  address = {Boston, [Mass.]},
  title = {Heat transfer},
  isbn = {9780073529363  0073529362  9780071267694  0071267697},
  abstract = {One of the most popular heat transfer texts of its time, Holman's book is noted for its clarity, accessible approach, and inclusion of many examples and problem sets. This new edition features design-oriented problems, and improved pedagogy.},
  language = {English},
  publisher = {{McGraw} Hill Higher Education},
  author = {Holman, J. P},
  year = {2010}
}

The complete style file is attached.

[localghost]

Sorry about that, I just really need to get this solved and I wanted to increase my possibilities of getting an answer. […]

That's a widespread misbelief. The chance for an answer depends solely on the quality of the question. X-posts are nothing but contra-productive.

[karirafn]

I solved the problem by using the tocbibind package and replacing the line in the template with \settocbibname{Bibliography} like you suggested.