Re: New user experience ct'd: exporting citations into LaTeX (9.5)

[Leszek Wroński]

Thank you very much! For some mistaken reason I assumed this would
only point to the location of the bibliography section of the
generated file, but now I understand that it serves a double role,
specifying the .bib file too.

Thanks again!

Best regards,

Leszek.

On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 at 23:35, Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Try adding this where you want the bibliography.
>
> #+print_bibliography:
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 5:27 PM Leszek Wroński <elwro1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Guys,
> >
> > thank you very much for your responses to my previous query. (I will
> > study the ebib package more closely; as of now it does not seem to
> > work with the file fields in my Mendeley-created .bib file. (Yes, I
> > promise will stop using Mendeley.))
> >
> > I wanted to try the two LaTeX export processors mentioned in the 15.2
> > section of the manual: natbib and biblatex. My .org file has a
> > #+bibliography line specifying my .bib (which is correct, since
> > inserting citations is now working). I put both (use-package
> > oc-natbib) and (use-package oc-biblatex) in my .emacs . (I've used
> > natbib for years when writing .tex documents; I don't know biblatex.)
> >
> > The situation is as follows:
> > -- if I put #+cite_export: natbib at the beginning of my .org file,
> > then C-c C-e l L gives me a LaTeX file which does *not* specify the
> > .bib file; it has \citep{} commands where they should be, but of
> > course bibtex doesn't know what to do with them;
> > -- if I use #+cite_export: biblatex instead, then the resulting .tex
> > file does contain the \addbibresource{} line pointing to my .bib , and
> > \autocite{} commands where citations should be; however, I simply
> > cannot get this to work: Biber works alright, but eventually pdflatex
> > gives me the following error:
> >
> > --------------
> > ERROR: LaTeX3 Error: Mismatched LaTeX support files detected.
> >
> > --- TeX said ---
> > (LaTeX3)        Loading 'l3backend-pdftex.def' aborted!
> > (LaTeX3)
> > (LaTeX3)        The L3 programming layer in the LaTeX format
> > (LaTeX3)        is dated 2021-01-09, but in your TeX tree the files require
> > (LaTeX3)        at least 2021-02-18.
> > ---------------
> >
> > which I'm unable to get rid of. (This is of course not a question for
> > this group but if anyone had similar problems I'd be grateful for
> > pointers ;-);  fmtutil-sys --all and fmtutil-user --all did nothing to
> > alleviate this)
> >
> > So: I'd really like to keep using natbib and make it somehow insert
> > the information about the .bib file into the .tex when exporting. How
> > do I do that?
> >
> > Thank you again for your help!
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Leszek.
> >