Re: Help: undefined control sequence

Hello to all

I had also a lot of trouble with Latex. I decided to install MiKTeX from
the beginning.
I.e. I removed the old release and install a new one.First it didn't work
since I used the 32-bit relase and Instead I have a 64-bit Toshiba. Then I
went on the 64 bit release and it didn't work just the same.
It was impossible to compile anything and also to do the update. But after
sometime the latest release
started to work, but not perfectly because during the compilation the
compiler asked to install many macros. Untill to day the MiKTeX update
program didn't work but now it works. First it obliged me to update the
64-bit release, after I did it it allowed to install all the updates and
now the Latex compiler works quite well. I suspect that the MiKTeX
administrators didn't work on the program for sometime.
Now probably they fixed some bugs. So I decided also to give 10euros
donation to them.

Brunello Tirozzi

Brunello Tirozzi

Centro Ricerche Enea, Frascati, Via. E. Fermi 45, 00044 Frascati (Roma)
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università "La Sapienza"

2016-01-19 4:47 GMT+01:00 William Atwood <[email protected]>:

> 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
> > _____________________________________________________________________
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Rachel Jones
> > PhD Candidate I Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease
> > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences, The University of
> Western Australia
> > Level 5 MRF Building 50 Murray Street, Perth WA
> > Tel: +61 8 9224 0394
> >
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