Hi Ross,

On 28 Jun 2015, at 21:13 , Ross Ahmed rossahmed@googlemail.com wrote:

In my master .tex file, the command LaTeX > Insert > Citation Based on Current Word works fine.

However if I try to run the same command in the child files, I get a dialogue box with the error message "Failure running “Citation Based on Current Selection…”. plus a long list of paths.

This is what I have set in Preferences > Variables: “BIBINPUTS ~/Library/Mobile Documents/M6HJR9W95L~com~textasticapp~textastic/Documents/refs.bib"

Anyone know what the problem is?

as far as I know `BIBINPUTS` need to be a list of directories. Please try to use the following as value for `BIBINPUTS`:

$HOME/Library/Mobile Documents/M6HJR9W95L~com~textasticapp~textastic/Documents:.

Here `.` specifies the current directory. `:` is used to separate each directory entry. Therefore the above value means that

$HOME/Library/Mobile Documents/M6HJR9W95L~com~textasticapp~textastic/Documents

and

.

should be searched for bibliography files.

You need to specify the name of your `.bib` file in your document via the command

\bibliography{refs}{}

or via

\addbibresource{refs.bib}

if you use biber.

Ross

If that does not help, then please just ask again. It would also be super helpful if you could provide a minimal example together with steps to reproduce the problem.

Kind regards, René

Hi Ross,

On 04 Jul 2015, at 20:17 , Ross Ahmed rossahmed@googlemail.com wrote:

Hi René

Unfortunately I cannot get the citation completion to work in the child files, just the master file.

I'm not sure how I would convert my files into a MWE, but I'm using the thesis template from latextemplates.com and the files can be downloaded here: http://www.latextemplates.com/template/masters-doctoral-thesis

just downloaded the LaTeX template. Since the bib file `Bibliography.bib` is already included in the project folder you do not need to set `BIBINPUTS`! This would only be necessary if your bibliography file is located somewhere else.

To get the citation completion also working in included files you need to specify a so-called master file. This is the file you translate to produce your (PDF-)document. In your case this is the file `main.tex`. One way to specify that `main.tex` is your master file is to write a comment of the form:

%!TEX root = path_to_masterfile

at the top of an included file.

E.g.: If you want to get the citation completion to work in `Chapters/Chapter1.tex`, then add the following at the top of the file `Chapter1.tex`:

%!TEX root = ../main.tex

`..` specifies the folder one level above the current folder `Chapters`.

You can also use the command “Set Master File” inside “Bundles→LaTeX→File Preferences” to set the master file.

I hope this helps. If it does not, then please provide a description of the problems you encountered.

I noticed someone was having the same problem as me here, but it didn't seem that a solution was found: http://textmate.1073791.n5.nabble.com/Textmate-Latex-Citation-Inclusion-does...

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Kind regards, René