> solution: replece with bibtex8 from TL7 (need also some dll's if on > win32) No. Solution : BIBINPUTS.bibtex8 = .;$TEXMF/bibtex/{bib,}// BSTINPUTS.bibtex8 = .;$TEXMF/bibtex/{bst,csf,}// in your texmf.cnf . Fabrice