On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Michael Green wrote:

I have the minimals installed in ~/Applications/context/

Context works great. However, I'm having trouble with bibtex.

[1] I export the following variables before using context.

. ~/Applications/context/tex/setuptex ~/Applications/context/tex export TEXMFHOME='$HOME/Library/texmf' export TEXMF='{$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFPROJECT,!!$TEXMFFONTS,!! $TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}';

(I added export PATH=/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel/ bin:$PATH but that didn't seem to make a difference in a couple of quick trials)

[2] The problem is that the minimal's bibtex can't find the bib file that I have stored in ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/

It reports: "I couldn't open database file bib-name.bib" and "I found no database files---while reading file file-name.aux"

You need to add ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib to the variable BIBINPUTS, either in texmf.cnf or in your .bashrc/calling script.

[3] "which bibtex" yields the path to the bibtex installed with the minimals:

/path-to-my-user-account/Applications/context/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin/ bibtex

[4] When I open a new shell session, "which bibtex" points to /usr/ texbin/bibtex. In this new shell, bibtex finds the bib file.

It's a small thing, but if there's some other setting to make bibtex work in the same shell session that context does, that would be nice.

You have two different installations of tex on your computer. By default the old distribution is used. When you run setuptex (with appropriate arguments) the new distribution is used first. Aditya