Re: reftex, auctex, and multiple files

[Jason Earl]

On Sun, Oct 24 2010, knubee wrote:

> i am trying to use reftex in a multi-file document. whenever i try "C-
> C[" i get the error "No valid bibliography in this document, and no
> default available."

Do you have a file test-bib.bib?

> the documentation here: 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/reftex/Multifile-Documents.html
> says to add file variables. however, this has not solved the problem
> for me. (i am running the latest version of emacs from bzr on ubuntu
> 10.04 with auctex 11.86 if that makes any difference).

I am running that exact same setup, and when I added a test-bib.bib then
things started to work.  In the limited testing that I did even adding
an empty file test-bib.bib made the error message go away.

> below is example from two test files. any suggestions?
>
> test-main.tex:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> \input{test-chapter}
> \bibliographystyle{abbrv}
> \bibliography{test-bib}
> \end{document}
>
> test-chapter.tex :
>
> %%% Local Variables:
> %%% mode: LaTex
> %%% TeX-master: "test-main.tex"
> %%% End:

One other thing.  Reftex apparently does not reparse the files unless
you ask it to.  If you add a test-bib.bib file and still get the error
message you need to go to the Ref menu, choose "Parse Document"->"Entire
Document".  Or you could just restart Emacs.

Good luck, and thanks for the question.  I had not played with this
stuff for a while, and it was interesting to experiment with a almost
working example.

Jason