LaTeX forum ⇒ BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Invocation of BibTeX fails Topic is solved

[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.

[localghost]

[…] 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]

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.