BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ option [subsectionbib] not recognized for package bibunits

[ivitagata]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to write a course syllabus with a reading list broken down by section. Using the default options (

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\begin{bibunit}[plain]...\putbib[bibfile]\end{bibunit}

I am able to get it to work. However, I have it set up by section representing weeks of the course. As soon as I try the option

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 \usepackage [subsectionbib]{bibunits}

or

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 \usepackage [sectionbib]{bibunits}

, I get the error message:

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LaTeX Error: Unknown option `subsectionbib' for package `bibunits'.

Here is a complete minimal example, which I pretty much copied out of the help pdf for bibunits:

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\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage[subsectionbib]{bibunits} 
\begin{document} 
\bibliographyunit[\section] 
\defaultbibliography{bibfile} 
\defaultbibliographystyle{plain} 
\section{First section} 
Read these articles \nocite{Adams1991} 
\putbib 
\section{second section}
You should read this article too \nocite{Adams1991}. 
\putbib 
 
\end{document} 

I've been staring at this, reading help files and internet searching this for a while. I am relatively new to LaTeX, perhaps I am not looking in the right places. It seems like I must be making an obvious mistake but I can't identify it. I'd be grateful for any help.

Thanks, and a good day to all.

Radu

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Radu,

welcome to the board!
This code example works for me without that error message. Perhaps your version of bibunits is too old, check it and update if necessary.

Stefan

[ivitagata]

Thank you Stefan, for the quick reply. I was using MacTeX2007, so I updated the whole thing to 2008, with TeX Live 2008, and reinstalled bibunits using TeX Live. I get the same error message (both from TeXShop and from Terminal command). Is there another way to check the version and install it?

Thank you,

Radu