BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ bibunits | Remaining undefined Citations

[rouroy]

Hi,

I'm writing my thesis and I have some troubles using bibunits. I work with MiKTeX 2.8 and TeXnicCenter on Windows to produce PDF files.

For example, if I have my main file "test.tex"

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{bibunits}

\begin{document}
\begin{bibunit}[plain]
blablabla\cite{alexandre2000} .
\putbib{bibtest}
\end{bibunit}
\end{document}

and the bibliography database file "bibtest.bib"

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@article{alexandre2000,
   author = {Alexandre, M.},
   title = {blabla},
   journal = {Journal},
   volume = {1},
   pages = {1},
   year = {2000}
}

I get two warnings saying: citation "alexandre2000" on page 1 undefined on input line 7. No bu1.bbl and the second warning: there were undefined references.
I don't understand what is the problem since I follow exactly what is say in the bibunits documentation.

And if I used a standard procedure for my bibliography, like this

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{cite}

\begin{document}
blablabla\cite{alexandre2000}.
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{bibtest}
\end{document}

I get not trouble! So what I do wrong with bibunits? Does someone have an idea?

Thanks!

[olofos]

Do you run "bibtex bu1" after running the compiler? I've never used TeXnicCenter, but I suspect that most latex-aware editors are unable to detect when BibTeX needs to be run with an argument other than the main .aux file.

[quentin_parsons]

Hi,

I've hit the same issue. The discussion thread above seems to have gone cold. Did you resolve your issue using the posted comment? Any ideas please?

[Hypochristmutreefuzz]

Hello,

I have the same problem with bibunits. I use TeXnicCenter and like to have a references section in each chapter. I think, like olofos said, the problem is that BibTeX needs to compile all the "bu<i>.aux" files. The
bibunits manual says:

For each bibunit, in sequence, there is now a corresponding file bu<i>.aux that
needs to be compiled through BibTEX. Suppose your document has <n> different
bibunits, you must now invoke BibTEX on bu1, . . . , bu<n>. This can be done by a
csh-script.

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#!/bin/csh
foreach auxfile (bu*.aux)
echo bibtex ‘basename $auxfile .aux‘
bibtex ‘basename $auxfile .aux‘
end

If you don’t have the base name command, you can use an alternative script where the suffix .aux is removed using "sed".

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#!/bin/csh
foreach auxfile (bu*.aux)
set auxfilebasename = ‘echo $auxfile | sed s/.aux//‘
echo bibtex $auxfilebasename
bibtex $auxfilebasename
end

It seems that this code needs to be sent to BibTeX somehow, however I dont know how to do this. I hope there is someone on this forum that can help me and anyone else who is struggeling with this!

[localghost]

These are C-Shell scripts for Unix like systems (e.g. Linux). The counterpart for Wind0ws (MSD0S) are batch files. So, with the necessary knowledge you will have to translate the scripts to make them work on your system.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Hypochristmutreefuzz]

Thanks localghost,

I finally got it to work. I don't know how to translate the Unix script to windows, but I made a .bat file (random name) with the following code in it:

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pdflatex myfile
bibtex bu1
bibtex bu2
pdflatex myfile
pdflatex myfile
pause

(pause is optional)

This will run PDFLaTeX on "myfile.tex", then BibTeX on "bu1.aux and "bu2.aux" (if you have more references sections you need to add "bu3"), and then PDFLaTeX twice more. I don't know how to get this to work in TeXnicCenter, however I did get it to work in TeXmaker. At "Configure Texmaker" you type in the user field:

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"C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.7/miktex/bin/pdflatex.exe" -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|"C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.7/miktex/bin/bibtex.exe" bu1.aux|"C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.7/miktex/bin/bibtex.exe" bu2.aux|"C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.7/miktex/bin/pdflatex.exe" -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|"C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.7/miktex/bin/pdflatex.exe" -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|"C:/Program Files/Adobe/Reader 9.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe" %.pdf

This should do the same thing as the .bat file.

[random89598]

For TeXnicCenter, first make the file "compilebib.bat" with this content:

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@echo off
echo Processing auxiliary files with BibTeX
For %%i in (*.aux) Do bibtex %%i

then click "define output profiles" (Alt+F7), select the "Postprocessor" tab, and add new. Put "compilebib.bat" under executable. Works for me.

[sbyrnes321]

Here's my exact procedure for TeXworks...

I made a text file with the following:

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@echo off
echo Running texify for the first time
texify.exe %*
echo Processing auxiliary files with BibTeX
For %%i in (*.aux) Do bibtex %%i
echo Running texify for the second time
texify.exe %*

then saved the file as "texifycompilebib.bat". I put the file in my MikTeX bin folder C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin (not sure if that's necessary or wise but it worked).

Next, I opened TeXworks and went to Edit --> Preferences --> Typesetting. Under "Processing tools" I double-clicked my favorite processing tool that I had previously been using before I installed bibunits, which happened to be "pdfLaTeX+MakeIndex+BibTeX". Double-clicking shows what the processing tool does: It calls the program "texify.exe" with three specific arguments ("--pdf", "--tex-option=-synctex=1", "$fullname"). So I down wrote those three arguments on a piece of paper, and went back to the main processing tool window. Then I made a new Processing tool (plus sign in the bottom right), and named it "pdfLaTeX+MakeIndex+BibTeX for bibunits". I set it up to call my program (texifycompilebib.bat) instead of texify.exe, but otherwise I made it exactly the same as pdfLaTeX+MakeIndex+BibTeX, with the same three arguments in the same order.

Finally, in TeXworks, I can select "pdfLaTeX+MakeIndex+BibTeX for bibunits" from the drop-down menu at the top, and by clicking the green button the whole document re-compiles in one click! Very nice!!

Thanks everyone, especially random89598!

[Irgi]

Thank you all. That fixed it for me too!