BibTeX, biblatex and biberBibTeX and PCTeX

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Nadia_ZA
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BibTeX and PCTeX

Post by Nadia_ZA »

Hi! Here's my MWE.

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\begin{filecontents}{biblio.bib}
@article{gz1974,
	title={The existence of certain planar maps},
	author={Gr{\"u}nbaum, Branko and Zaks, Joseph},
	journal={Discrete Mathematics},
	volume={10},
	number={1},
	pages={93--115},
	year={1974},
	publisher={North-Holland}
}

@article{owens1984regular,
	title={Regular planar graphs with faces of only two types and shortness parameters},
	author={Owens, PJ},
	journal={Journal of graph theory},
	volume={8},
	number={2},
	pages={253--275},
	year={1984},
	publisher={Wiley Online Library}
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

\usepackage[round]{natbib}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Introduction}
A paper on planar maps is \citet{gz1974}.

\cleardoublepage

\chapter{Graphs} 
3-, 4-, 5-regular non-hamiltonian graphs can be found in \citep{owens1984regular}.

\renewcommand{\bibname}{References}
\setlength{\bibhang}{0.5in}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{biblio}

\end{document}
I'm new to Latex and I'm using PCTeX 6 Professional. I've scoured the internet and found out that I need to typeset this document 4 times (ie LaTeX-BibTeX-LaTeX-LaTeX). The problem is now I can't find BibTeX in the typeset menu? I know I should have posted this topic in PCTeX Talk Forum. The thing is I'm still waiting for them to activate my account which I've registered last week. So, I've typeset LaTeX the above code for more than 4 times. On the pdf output, I get question marks instead of citation and no references. What should I do? Please help.

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Re: BibTeX and PCTeX

Post by Johannes_B »

Hi Nadia, click on »open in writelatex« just above the code you posted ;-)


You can run bibtex from the command line, or if you prefer with texworks, a free editor that is installed with the two big TeX distributions but can be installed separately.

To be honest, i hope you can do it and PCTeX doesn't hide anything from you. That would be horrible.

By the way, i am using TeX Live, it is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is developed by a handful of active TeX users all over the world, so it is reliable. And it is free.
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Nadia_ZA
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Re: BibTeX and PCTeX

Post by Nadia_ZA »

Hi Johannes! Thank you for your prompt reply. I've just installed TeXworks and MiKTeX. It works but I still hope that there's someone here who's using PCTeX could show me what to do. Thanks anyway!
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BibTeX and PCTeX

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How many people may use PCTeX today?

Just an indicator, google trends:
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Of course people also write TeX Live, which is not included here.

And here's the MiKTeX Trend.
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My choice is TeX Live because of the TeX User Group Support and the support of all important operating systems, besides that it's great.

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Nadia_ZA
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Re: BibTeX and PCTeX

Post by Nadia_ZA »

Hi everyone!

I've just been informed the way to run BibTeX on PCTeX: Click on Bibliography in the Tools menu and run LaTeX.

:D
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