Okay, I've switched to BibLaTeX, and through some testing have managed to
create EPUB files with bibliographies. So far, so good, although further
testing will be necessary.
I did notice something interesting, though. I've been using the "alphabetic"
style, since that was what I used with multibib:
\usepackage[style=alphabetic, backend=biber]{biblatex}
I have a number of .bib entries - websites, mostly - which do not have an
author, but a key instead.
@misc{ AIV,
key = {Architekten und Ingenieurverein Berlin Brandenburg},
title = "{Schinkel-Wettbewerb 2005}",
howpublished =
{\url{https://www.aiv-berlin-brandenburg.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Dokumentation_SW_2005.pdf}},
note = {Accessed: 2022-10-31}
}
The bibliography entry in the pdf looks like this:
[Arc] Schinkel-Wettbewerb 2005. https://www.aiv-berlin-brandenburg.de/
wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Dokumentation_SW_2005.pdf. Accessed:
2022-10-31.
However, the tex4ebook entry looks like this:
[]Schinkel-Wettbewerb 2005.
https://www.aiv-berlin-brandenburg.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Dokumentation_SW_2005.pdf.
Accessed: 2022-10-31.
It seems that when an alphabetic bibliography index has no author, pdflatex
uses the first letters from the key instead - but tex4ebook does not want to
do, and thus generates an "empty" key. This will also show up as "[]" in the
location where the reference is cited.
This isn't a problem when you have numeric bibliography entries - only when the
bibliography needs to pull letters from the entry itself.
One obvious solution is to manually replace those "key" entries with "author"
entries in my .bib files. But I'm curious if there is another possible
workaround.
Best regards,
- Jürgen
> Gesendet: Montag, 04. März 2024 um 09:30 Uhr
> Von: "Michal Hoftich"
> An: "Jürgen Hubert"
> Cc: tex4ht@tug.org
> Betreff: Re: [tex4ht] Working examples of bibtex / multibib with tex4ebook?
>
> Hi Jürgen,
>
> > I did it again - I've waited too long to update my LaTeX packages, and now
> > my old files will no longer compile correctly. So now I have to carefully
> > wade through my code and test anything.
>
> I can see that there is no configuration file for multibib. Bibtex
> itself should work. I can try to debug multibib, but a testing file
> would be nice.
>
> You can also try BibLaTeX and it is much more powerful than both
> bibtex and multibib.
>
> Best regards,
> Michal
>
