BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Bibliography Database in other Directory than Source

[Norman314]

I am using TeXStudio. I want to keep my .bib files in a different directory from my .tex files so that I can share my .bib files among all my projects. I have figured out how to include the .bib files in my compilation, by using the --include-directory switch with the bibtex command. However, when I type \cite in my .tex file, TeXStudio is not able to find the .bib files unless they are in the same directory as the .tex file, so I have to manually enter the bibliography keys rather than selecting them from a list. How can I solve this problem? Is there a way to tell TeXStudio which directory to look in for the .bib file?

[nphaibk]

just enter the full path for the bib file

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\bibliography{C:/literature/ref.bib}

or relative path (assume you have:

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C:/MyDocument/PhD/Literature/ref.bib
C:/MyDocument/PhD/Thesis/thesis.tex

then you can write:

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\bibliography{../literature/ref.bib}

in your thesis.tex, it will understand

[Norman314]

Thanks, that mostly worked. I actually had to put the full path name without the .bib extension omitted.

Another issue that came up is that I'm using hard wrap mode, and I had two bib files, and so I wasn't able to fit them both on the same line, and the hard wrap in the middle of the second made it not be recognized. I fixed this by combining the two into one. But I wonder whether there's a way to keep a particular line from wrapping in hard wrap mode.