[Bug-AUCTeX] 11.85; Biblatex vs. RefTex

[Andreas Breitbach]

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I'm using Biblatex instead of Bibtex, for which AucTex/RefTex seems to
be preconfigured. The basic functions like inserting citations,
bibliographies and so on work quite well. But there's some very strange
behavior when i use the folowing lines in my .emacs
(setq reftex-cite-format "\\footcite[]{%l}")
(setq reftex-cite-prompt-optional-args t),
all i do get is "reftex-do-citation: Args out of range: 21, 37"(I think
the numbers change from time to time...). The expected behaviour would
be to insert the optional argument(which follows the citation, ie. a
page number) after the citation. It would be really nice to have the
possibility to insert the page of a certain citation directly in the
described way instead of doing M-b and insert the required characters
manually.
Is there anything else where i could look up how this behaviour is
caused, or what I could try to fix it? There don't seem to be many
problems like this one(with RefTex), according to Google.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Andreas Breitbach


Emacs  : GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.1)
 of 2008-09-05 on vernadsky, modified by Ubuntu
Package: 11.85

current state:
==============
(setq
 AUCTeX-date "2008-02-10"
 window-system 'x
 LaTeX-version "2e"
 TeX-style-path '("style" "auto"
"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/style"
"/home/andy/.emacs.d/var/auctex")
 TeX-auto-save nil
 TeX-parse-self t
 TeX-master nil
 TeX-command-list '(("TeX" "%(PDF)%(tex) %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t"
TeX-run-TeX nil (plain-tex-mode ams-tex-mode texinfo-mode) :help
                     "Run plain TeX")
                    ("LaTeX" "%`%l%(mode)%' %t" TeX-run-TeX nil (latex-mode
doctex-mode) :help "Run LaTeX")
                    ("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %t" TeX-run-compile nil 
(texinfo-mode) :help
"Run Makeinfo with Info output")
                    ("Makeinfo HTML" "makeinfo --html %t" TeX-run-compile nil
(texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with HTML output")
                    ("AmSTeX" "%(PDF)amstex %`%S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %t" 
TeX-run-TeX nil
(ams-tex-mode) :help "Run AMSTeX")
                    ("ConTeXt" "texexec --once --texutil %(execopts)%t" 
TeX-run-TeX
nil (context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt once")
                    ("ConTeXt Full" "texexec %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil
(context-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt until completion")
                    ("BibTeX" "bibtex %s" TeX-run-BibTeX nil t :help "Run 
BibTeX")
                    ("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard t t :help "Run Viewer") 
("Print" "%p"
TeX-run-command t t :help "Print the file")
                    ("Queue" "%q" TeX-run-background nil t :help "View the 
printer
queue" :visible TeX-queue-command)
                    ("File" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-command t t :help 
"Generate
PostScript file")
                    ("Index" "makeindex %s" TeX-run-command nil t :help "Create 
index
file")
                    ("Check" "lacheck %s" TeX-run-compile nil (latex-mode) :help
"Check LaTeX file for correctness")
                    ("Spell" "(TeX-ispell-document \"\")" TeX-run-function nil 
t :help
"Spell-check the document")
                    ("Clean" "TeX-clean" TeX-run-function nil t :help "Delete
generated intermediate files")
                    ("Clean All" "(TeX-clean t)" TeX-run-function nil t :help 
"Delete
generated intermediate and output files")
                    ("Other" "" TeX-run-command t t :help "Run an arbitrary 
command"))
 )