How Do I Generate Footnote Citations and Bibliography?

Hi JohnDave,

I'm sure we can get you up and running!

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:53:32AM -0000, JohnDave Medina wrote:
> Here are the steps I took:
>
> 1. I created sbl.bib with BibDesk and placed it in the proper directory.

Good.

you can make sure TeX can find it by running

    kpsewhich sbl.bib

at the commandline from the same directory as your tex file.

> 2. I created an very simple entry in BibDesk, with these fields:
> citekey, author, publisher, year, author, address, and translator
> (created).

Good. Check your bib file, to make sure it has worked. It should look
like:

@book{citekey,
    author = {...},
    title = {...},
    translator = {...},
    address = {...},
    publisher = {...}
    year = {...}
}

> 3. Saved it as sbl.bib with UTF-8 formatting (also tried with Western
> OS but no luck either).

UTF-8 is good.

>
> When I try to generate a footnote citation using \cite[31]{citekey},
> all I get is: 1 ?. The "1" is a footnote marker and it appears where
> it should.
>
> In my console, the following message appears: LaTeX Warning: Citation
> `Losskyot:1978' on page 1 undefined on input line 17.
>
> Also, I'm not sure how to generate a bibliography.

You need to tell LaTeX to use the sbl.bib file. This is done using the
\bibliography{sbl} macro. This will insert the bibliography too.

A minimal document might look like this:

\documentclass{sblessay}
\begin{document}
\cite[31]{citekey}

\bibliography{sbl}
\end{document}

>
> I have updated to the latest files via svn. I did encounter the
> message "-n Running updmap (this may take some time)... install.sh:
> line 54: update-updmap: command not found" when trying to install
> everything.

hum! I had thought that update-updmap might be a Debian Linux specific
file, but the install script is supposed to check and tell you what to
do! This probably means my method for testing whether update-updmap
exists is not portable. Thanks for the heads up. I'll try some other
options.

The good news is, that it is not relevant if you are using XeTeX (which
I assume you are). use
    install.sh --noupdmap
to avoid running it all together.

It is only needed under LaTeX in order to tell TeX how to use the SBL
Hebrew font.

How does that help?

dc

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