Thanks to Kieran for providing me a perfect minimal example offline, that allowed me to spot the problem in two minutes. The problem was that the current bibfile parser did not expect to find spaces between the @Book{ and the corresponding citekey. I.e. this was not allowed: @Book{ theCitekey, otherFields
I've committed a fix.
For future reference, if you have problems with the insert citation command, there is a huge chance that the problem is caused by a bibfile whose format our parser was not prepared to handle, so that's the first place to look for solutions in such situations.
Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College
On Dec 20, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Kieran Healy wrote:
Hi,
Sorry my bad, I've been a bit rusty. TM_LATEX_BIB is supposed to point to an actual bib file, not the directory. What you want is to set the BIBINPUTS variable in TM to the directory path as well, like you set it in bash_profile. (hopefully ;) ). I'm kind of surprised this wasn't a problem earlier, if you had set TM_LATEX_BIB to that directory. Let's hope this would fix it,
I didn't have TM_LATEX_BIB set originally --- I put that in during my efforts to solve the problem. Now I've removed it again. BIBINPUTS was not set in TextMate. I set it and it returns '/Users/ kjhealy/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib:' from within TM. (This is the correct path.) But my problem persists. On the MacBook Pro, when I use the keyboard shortcut the menu pops up asking to create a label or a citation, and when I then select citation, nothing happens except the pointer changes to a cross. Same goes for the option when selected through the bundle menu. On the G5 desktop (which I currently don't have access to) the same thing was happening except I was getting the "Can't find any files named 'bibname'" tooltip.
Kieran