munwar: Filing Folders

Friday, 28 September 2012

Filing Folders

However, doing that forces you into one of two evils: either your put all your TeX documents in a same folder, which is clumsy, or you have serveral copies of your bibliography around, which is clumsy. Typically, you will have many documents that would need to be sorted out in different folders, while you have only one or two bibliography files that you keep updated.

So the best way to go is to keep your bibliography file(s) in one single place, but to have your TeX documents in different folders. At least that is what I wanted to do. But using a bibliography file from a different folder can be quite tricky, especially under Windows. Here are two ways to do it: