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ZeeRaX
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Invocation of BibTeX fails

Post by ZeeRaX »

Hi Folks,

I can't figure out why I keep getting this error for a long time already. I'm running a portable version of Texmaker 3.5 and portable TeX Live 2012. Everything is working smooth, but not BibTeX.

TeXmaker settings:
pdfLaTeX: "../bin/win32/pdflatex.exe" -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex
Bib(la)TeX: "../bin/win32/bibtex.exe %
also tried:
Bib(la)TeX: "../bin/win32/bibtex.exe %.aux

My TeX document:

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{memoir}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}

\begin{document}
  Random text \citep{petris}

  \bibliographystyle{natplain}
  \bibliography{literature}
\end{document}
The file "literature.bib":

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@Book{petris,
  author = "PETRIS, Giovanni a Sonia PETRONE a Patrizia CAMPAGNOLI",
  title = "Dynamic linear models with R",
  publisher = "Springer",
  year =  2009,
  address = "Palo Alto",
  edition = "3th,",
  isbn = "978-0-387-77237"
}
When I run BibTeX I keep getting the following:
Error: could not start the command
Any hints please? I've searched through the web with no success. The issues always ended up with wrong syntax of the complainant.
Last edited by ZeeRaX on Tue Feb 26, 2013 12:42 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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Invocation of BibTeX fails

Post by localghost »

ZeeRaX wrote:[…] TeXmaker settings:
pdfLaTeX: "../bin/win32/pdflatex.exe" -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex
Bib(la)TeX: "../bin/win32/bibtex.exe %
If this is really your TeXmaker setup, then a quotation mark (") is missing in the settings for BibTeX.

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"../bin/win32/bibtex.exe" %

Thorsten
ZeeRaX
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Invocation of BibTeX fails

Post by ZeeRaX »

I feel stupid now. You see, I was right about most common issue with BibTex! And I think you all assumed it as well. The problem was in syntax and missing character.
Now

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"../bin/win32/bibtex" %
Works fine! Thank you very much sir!

Why I didn't fix this by myself, is due to other commands, they were somehow without second quotation mark as well.
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