BibTeX file not found in resource path

[rgaiacs]

Related to #853

Minimal Working Example

Let's create a new book project:

$ quarto create-project mwe --type book
Creating project at /tmp/mwe:
  - Created _quarto.yml
  - Created index.qmd
  - Created intro.qmd
  - Created summary.qmd
  - Created references.qmd
  - Created cover.png
  - Created references.bib
$ cd mwe
$ quarto render --to html --output-dir public --debug --execute-debug --log-level info
[1/4] index.qmd
[2/4] intro.qmd
[3/4] summary.qmd
[4/4] references.qmd

Output created: public/index.html

quarto work as expected.

Let's create a directory called foo to host a part of our book and create a file foo/index.qmd to open our book part.

$ mkdir foo
$ cp index.qmd foo/
$ cat _quarto.yml 
project:
  type: book

book:
  title: "mwe"
  author: "Jane Doe"
  date: "13/05/2022"
  chapters:
    - index.qmd
    - intro.qmd
    - summary.qmd
    - references.qmd

bibliography: references.bib

format:
  html:
    theme: cosmo
  pdf:
    documentclass: scrreprt
$ quarto render --to html --output-dir public --debug --execute-debug --log-level info
[1/5] foo/index.qmd
[2/5] index.qmd
[3/5] intro.qmd
[4/5] summary.qmd
[5/5] references.qmd

File ../references.bib not found in resource path
ERROR: File ../references.bib not found in resource path

Primary Issue

quarto fail with File ../references.bib not found in resource path. Some how, the introduction of foo/index.qmd messed with quarto's path logic.

Secondary Issue

quarto is processing foo/index.qmd but it is lot listed in _quarto.yml.

[dragonstyle]

Great find - I fixed two issues (incorrect bibliography path and incorrect rendering of files not in book) and a fresh should be available shortly. Thanks for letting us know about this!

[fuhrmanator]

I tried cloning my (working) project on a different Windows PC, with a newer update of quarto (0.9.410) and I think I hit this problem. On windows, it's a bit more obscure, probably because of the backslashes in the path (and I'm sometimes using git bash inside VSCode). It gives me this error:

ERROR: File C:-ndc-quarto.bib not found in resource path

C:\Users\me\Documents\GitHub\log210-ndc-quarto>

When I try --render pdf in this command, it gets even uglier (maybe because of the LaTeX chain?):

Reverting Windows console CPs to (in,out) = (437,65001)
ERROR: InvalidData: stream did not contain valid UTF-8

Just in case someone has these errors and searches.

ETA: this problem was not present on my other Windows PC running quarto 0.9.368.

[fuhrmanator]

The windows manifestation of not finding the bib resource I reported above is still present in 0.9.415. Here's what's in my _quarto.yml:

book:
  title: "blah"
  author: 
    - "me"
    - "somebody else"
  subtitle: "![cover image](images/cover.png){width=70%}"
  date: "2022-05-06"
  chapters:
    - index.qmd
    - one.qmd
    - two.qmd
    - three.qmd
    - references.qmd

bibliography: references.bib

It turns out, the trouble is caused by the .bib and the .qmd having the same name (references).

When I renamed references.bib to my_bib.bib and updated the yaml, the problem disappears (for both latex and html renders). I'm not sure this is the same bug, but it surely seems related to the logic of finding .bib files.

[dragonstyle]

Great one! This should be fixed here: f955b96 and a release should be available shortly!

[fuhrmanator]

My problems above are solved with 0.9.424 🚀