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From: oliver@athena.mit.edu (James D. Oliver III)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Using \input in *.bib files
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Date: 29 May 91 17:54:48 GMT
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Can you use the \input command in *.bib files?  Two things I have tried
seem to indicate that you can't.  

1.  I have a several *.bib files which I'd like to share a common file
containing all the @string command for journal title abbreviations.  So the
first line in all these *.bib files is:

\input{journalabbreviations}

where journalabbreviation.tex looks like

@string{j1 = "Journal 1"}
@string{j2 = "Journal 2"}
etc.

However, when I try to creat a bibliography, I get errors for all of my
@string-defined entries, and no journal title printed out.  The entries in
which the title is explicitly stated come out fine.

2.  Combining several *.bib files into one using \input doesn't seem to
work.  I.e, as an alternative to using

\bibliography{bib1,bib2,bib3}

I want to creat a file bib4.bib which has the lines

\input{bib1.bib}
\input{bib2.bib}
\input{bib3.bib}

and then just have

\bibliography{bib4} in my main tex file.  This runs through without erros,
but I get no references printed.

Comments, suggestions?

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