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Many LaTeX documents, one BibTeX database
As a researcher, I spend most of my time writing LaTeX, using many tools, among which BibTeX, the bibliography database processor. Our team manages a huge .bib file centralizing all publications we read and might need to cite someday.
Since nearly everything we write uses that file, so it gets linked or copied into each the source directory of each new document. Some of us even have a bash alias to automate that copy, but they still have to invoke it for each new paper. But…
- Zero cost solution:
- Just put the database somewhere in BibTeX’s search path!
