Re: Help: undefined control sequence

Rachel,

>From the log that you have provided, it seems that "\chapter" is the
first line of your .tex file.  If so, then you need to (at least) define
the class file that LaTeX will use.  You (probably) want to incorporate
other useful packages as well.  The error messages from BibTeX are a
side effect of the fact that you have not successfully run the LaTeX
compile yet.  (BibTeX uses a file created by the LaTeX compile.)

Search the web for help on "getting started" with LaTeX.  One that I
have found helpful is Peter Grogono's "A LaTeX2E Gallimaufry:
Techniques, Tips, and Traps.", which can be found at
http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~grogono/Writings/writings.html .  He
even provides the LaTeX source for the document, which can be quite
instructive.

  Bill Atwood

On 18/01/2016 10:08 PM, Rachel Jones wrote:
> Command Line:   bibtex.exe "overall-intro"
> Startup Folder: F:\PhD\Thesis with LaTeX\Thesis
> 
> This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (MiKTeX 2.9)
> The top-level auxiliary file: overall-intro.aux
> I found no \bibdata command---while reading file overall-intro.aux
> I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file overall-intro.aux
> (There were 2 error messages)
> 
> 
> Command Line:   texify.exe --pdf --tex-option=--interaction=errorstopmode --tex-option=--synctex=-1 "F:\PhD\Thesis with LaTeX\Thesis\overall-intro.tex"
> Startup Folder: F:\PhD\Thesis with LaTeX\Thesis
> 
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (MiKTeX 2.9)
> entering extended mode
> ("F:/PhD/Thesis with LaTeX/Thesis/overall-intro.tex"
> LaTeX2e <2015/10/01> patch level 2
> Babel <3.9m> and hyphenation patterns for 69 languages loaded.
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.1 \chapter
>             {Introduction}
> ? q
> OK, entering \batchmode
> Sorry, but texify.exe did not succeed.
> 
> The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again:
> 
>   C:/Users/rjones/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/miktex/log/texify.log
> 
> You may want to visit the MiKTeX project page, if you need help.
> 
> 
> _____________________________________________________________________
> 
> PDFTeXify Compilation Report (Pages: 0)
> 
> Errors: 112   Warnings: 57   Bad Boxes: 144
> _____________________________________________________________________
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> Rachel Jones
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