David Bickel wrote:
Thanks, Richard.
Exactly where should I paste those two lines of text? Is there a shell
file somewhere I should edit? I do not know TeX, and I just started
using LyX.
That, I am afraid, is what I don't know, or even if you should paste
them somewhere. I know how to do it on Linux, but not on Windows. So
we'll have to hope that some helpful Windows user will know. Paul, is
that you?
Richard
David
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@bobjweil.com> wrote:
David Bickel wrote:
I keep my .bib files on a portable hard drive so I can easily work
from multiple computers. The only way I have been able to get LyX to
use these .bib files is to have it put the full path to my .bib
directory in the .lyx file. The problem with this is that I share the
.lyx file with other users whose computers do not recognize that path.
Is there a way that I can instead set the preferences on my computer
to use a different .bib path by default? That worked well in
Scientific Word.
I use Windows XP and Windows Vista with LyX 1.6.1.
What you need is the BIBINPUTS environment variable. I have this:
BIBINPUTS=/home/rgheck/files/bibtex::
export BIBINPUTS;
in my shell here. I assume there is some way to set these things on Windows.
If worse comes to worse, of course, you can directly modify TeX's texmf.cnf
configuration file. (I assume that must exist under Windows.)
rh
