BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Problem with texmaker and bibtex

[gmedina]

Hi,

I took a look at the log file attached; that log file was produced after compiling through pdfLaTeX but without compiling with BiBTeX. Please make sure to process your document in the following way:

Code: Select all

pdflatex TestingBib
bibtex TestingBib
pdflatex TestingBib
pdflatex TestingBib

[Gilligan]

That would explain it, except I am pressing F6, F11, F6, F6, F7 (in texmaker) Which is pdfLatex, bibTex, pdfLatex, pdfLatex, viewPDF. Is there a way to manually compile in texmaker?

Thanks

[gmedina]

Hi,

you can always compile using the command line. Open a terminal, change to the directory containing your .tex file and then run

Code: Select all

pdflatex TestingBib

then

Code: Select all

bibtex TestingBib

and then twice more

Code: Select all

pdflatex TestingBib

The generated pdf file should then be in that same directory.

[Gilligan]

Still not working for me. Any ideas on why texmaker isnt compiling the bib file? It says process exited normally after I press F11.

[gmedina]

Still not working for me...

Still what? do you mean that the command line compilation is not working?

...Any ideas on why texmaker isnt compiling the bib file? It says process exited normally after I press F11.

I only used that editor once (I think)... but there should be a mailing list or a FAQ page.

[meho_r]

Do you have any other editor installed? You may try with Texworks for example. As I said earlier, I saved your code as a test.tex document, your BibTeX entry as testingBib.bib, put them together in a folder, this time opened test.tex with Texworks, run pdflatex, then changed to BibTeX (top left drop menu) and compiled with it, then again switched to pdflatex and compiled twice. It did work. Here are files, extract them and try.

[Gilligan]

Thank you for your efforts, I have just narrowed the problem down quite a bit. I compiled the files on my laptop with the same editor and compiler and it works. The only difference is my desktop is a 64 bit machine. I dont know why this makes a difference, all of the other functionality is fine, but at least now I am able to get the PDF to look right. Thanks again to everyone for your help.