MiKTeX and proTeXt"I found no \citation commands..."

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jane8389
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"I found no \citation commands..."

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I am completely new to Latex, and after installing TeXnic centre and the MikTeX distribtion, I am having trouble with even the simplest of commands.
I tried entering:

\documentclass{report}
\begin{document}
hello
\end{document}

But this comes up with:

"I found no \citation commands---while reading file...
I found no \bibdata command---while reading file...
I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file...
(There were 3 error messages)
Couldn't find input index file...

So the document initially works (it writes hello in the pdf file), but once I start adding more commands it will stop writing anything.

Does anyone know how I can solve this problem? Any help would be much appreciated.

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Re: "I found no \citation commands..."

Post by localghost »

You shouldn't be too anxious. This output is caused by BibTeX which is used by TeXnicCenter (TXC) automatically. There should be similar messages about missing index entries because the same applies to MakeIndex. The document will be compiled flawlessly as long as there are no errors in the source code. You can turn off the use of BibTeX in the concerned build profile after pressing Alt+F7 in TXC.


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