BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ TeXnic Center not calling BiBTeX files

[zmall88]

Hello,
I am running TexLive2010 on a Windows XP machine and use TeXnic center as my editor. I had MiKTeX installed before and BiBTeX was working fine and dandy with it until I uninstalled it and installed TeXLive2010 instead. Now BiBTeX refuses to work. I don't what the problem is, it says the references can't be found, etc.

I am using the Elsevier bibliography style from here: http://www.elsevier.com/framework_autho ... m-sort.bst.

I have attached a minimum working example of the .tex file and also the .bib file, but it really isn't anything profound.

These are the log file contents:

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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (Web2C 2010) (format=pdflatex 2010.9.24)  8 DEC 2010 02:06
entering extended mode
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**"C:/Documents and Settings/Ismail Hameduddin/Desktop/MWE/LaTeX1.tex"
(c:/Documents and Settings/Ismail Hameduddin/Desktop/MWE/LaTeX1.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
rman-x-2009-06-19, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, ancientgreek, ibycus, arabic, armenian
, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, u
kenglish, usenglishmax, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, 
german, ngerman, swissgerman, monogreek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, assamese,
 bengali, gujarati, hindi, kannada, malayalam, marathi, oriya, panjabi, tamil, 
telugu, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kurmanji, lao, latin, latvian,
 lithuanian, mongolian, mongolianlmc, bokmal, nynorsk, polish, portuguese, roma
nian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, turkish,
 turkmen, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
(c:/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(c:/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo
File: size10.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
)
\c@part=\count79
\c@section=\count80
\c@subsection=\count81
\c@subsubsection=\count82
\c@paragraph=\count83
\c@subparagraph=\count84
\c@figure=\count85
\c@table=\count86
\abovecaptionskip=\skip41
\belowcaptionskip=\skip42
\bibindent=\dimen102
) (./LaTeX1.aux)
\openout1 = `LaTeX1.aux'.

LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.


LaTeX Warning: Citation `Kato:interpretation' on page 1 undefined on input line
 4.

No file LaTeX1.bbl.
[1

{c:/texlive/2010/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}

] (./LaTeX1.aux)

LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.

 ) 
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 207 strings out of 493747
 2395 string characters out of 3147037
 49070 words of memory out of 3000000
 3581 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+200000
 3948 words of font info for 15 fonts, out of 3000000 for 9000
 714 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 23i,4n,21p,195b,99s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s
<c:/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx10.pfb><c:/tex
live/2010/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on LaTeX1.pdf (1 page, 17340 bytes).
PDF statistics:
 16 PDF objects out of 1000 (max. 8388607)
 10 compressed objects within 1 object stream
 0 named destinations out of 1000 (max. 500000)
 1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000 (max. 10000000)

And this is the .aux file

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\relax 
\citation{Kato:interpretation}
\bibstyle{elsart-num-sort}
\bibdata{biblio-stand}

Help would be greatly appreciated, I've been pulling my hair out because of this.

[frabjous]

The problem certainly isn't with your files. I didn't have any trouble with them with TeXlive running on linux. (See attached.) The problem probably has something to do with the way you have TeXnicCenter configured or what you're doing with it. It simply appears that it isn't calling bibtex automatically when it needs to. (As you probably know, for a file that uses BibTeX, you need to run (pdf)LaTeX, then BibTeX on the .aux file, then LaTeX two more times. You seem to only be doing the first step. I thought TXC had a feature for combining these all into a simple step, but now I can't remember what that's called.) What exactly are you clicking on to generate the resulting file, and is TeXnicCenter giving you any errors or anything? Isn't there a way to do a BibTeX run in TXC directly? What happens when you try that?

Can you process the files from a DOS prompt, or with a different editor (e.g., TeXworks)?

[zmall88]

Oh thanks for that tip, I finally got it to work. TeXnic wouldn't give me any informative errors but when I put it in TeXworks, it told me I was missing a few commas and brackets in my bib file etc. which is strange because it worked previously. In any case, everything is fine after I put those commas in.