How to add a per-project .bib file path?

[ghost]

I currently have my folder that contains my .md file and my .bib file. I want to know how to specify the relative paths because I can't get them to work. Maybe it is because I have my folders on iCloud but I can't manage to add my .bib with a relative path. Also, do I need to create a new Citer.sublime-settings for every project that I work with or just change the path? I change the preferences via Preferences -> package settings -> citer -> citer settings-user

I currently have this in the Citer.sublime-settings:

{
    //REQUIRED:

    "bibtex_file_path": "/Learning Markdown/project.bib",
    // You can also specify a list
    //"bibtex_file_path": ["example/path/to/file.bib", "example/path/to/fileTwo.bib"],

    //OPTIONAL:

    //By default Citer Search looks for your keyword in the 
    //author, title, year, and Citekey (id) fields
    "search_fields": ["author", "title", "year", "id"] ,
    //Default format is @Citekey
    "citation_format": "@%s",
    //list of scopes. Could be top level "text" or "source", or limit to
    // e.g "text.html.markdown"
    "completions_scopes": ["text"],
    "enable_completions": true,
    //Customise the quickview of you library, using python format syntax
    "quickview_format": "{citekey} - {title}",
    "auto_merge_citations": false
}

Thank you.

[dhufe]

Hi the latest release contains the code to add a bibtexfile to project files.

Basic example:

{
    "folders":
     [
  {
      "follow_symlinks": true,
      "path": ".",
  }
     ],
     "bibtex_file": "path/to/bibtex.bib"
}

[trymnf]

Not quite sure why, but I think this commit makes it necessary to rename the bibtex_file_path setting in Packages/User/Citer.sublime-settings to bibtex_file.

At least on my setup, I get a warning that "no bibtex file is configured for Citer" using "bibtex_file_path" : "/path/to/my.bib" in my user settings. This resolves if I change it to bibtex_file.

(I don't have a bibtex file set in my sublime-project.)

This is probably not intended?

[geomsoc]

Not quite sure why, but I think this commit makes it necessary to rename the bibtex_file_path setting in Packages/User/Citer.sublime-settings to bibtex_file.

At least on my setup, I get a warning that "no bibtex file is configured for Citer" using "bibtex_file_path" : "/path/to/my.bib" in my user settings. This resolves if I change it to bibtex_file.

(I don't have a bibtex file set in my sublime-project.)

This is probably not intended?

Thank you for this! I have been banging my head against a wall for hours trying to resolve this.

[dhufe]

Hi there,

the general idea is to set a main bibliography file using the plugin settings and override it per project if the project file includes it.

Cheers, Daniel

[trymnf]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your work on this. I totally support the general idea, it's just that when I:

• don't have an override set in .sublime-project, and
• have a "bibtex_file_path" set in the plugin settings, (i.e., a main bibliography file---which worked fine in previous releases)

I get the error no bibtex file is configured for Citer. Does this behavior reproduce on your end?

It seems that Citer now expects a setting called "bibtex_file" in the plugin settings too, not just in the project settings.

Is there any reason why it can't be called bibtex_file_path both places?

[igelstorm]

@trymnf @dhufe I just added a new issue for this (https://github.com/mangecoeur/Citer/issues/44), just to make it a bit easier for new users to find if they encounter this problem. I just discovered this plugin (and am looking forward to using it, it looks great!), but I struggled to get it to work for quite a while until I found this issue.