Problem using bibunits

Question

I am trying to use bibunits package. If I compile the TeX file using the following sequence of commands, it works properly.

pdflatex document
bibtex bu1
pdflatex document
pdflatex document

However, if I compile it using TeXstudio 2.8.8, TeXstudio fails to recognize bibtex entries inside the bibunit. Here is a minimal example.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{bibunits}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{mybib.bib}
    @ARTICLE{Meyer2000,
        AUTHOR="Bernd Meyer",
        TITLE="A constraint-based framework for diagrammatic reasoning",
        JOURNAL="Applied Artificial Intelligence",
        VOLUME= "14",
        ISSUE = "4",
        PAGES= "327--344",
        YEAR=2000
    }
    @ARTICLE{Codishetal2000,
        AUTHOR="M. Codish and K. Marriott and C.K. Taboch",
        TITLE="Improving program analyses by structure untupling",
        JOURNAL="Journal of Logic Programming",
        VOLUME= ""43",
        ISSUE = "3",
        PAGES= "251--263",
        YEAR=2000
    }
\end{filecontents}
\begin{document}
    \begin{bibunit}[plain]
        References to the \TeX book \cite{Meyer2000}
        and to Lamport’s \LaTeX\ book, which appears
        only in the references\nocite{Codishetal2000}.
        \putbib[mybib]
    \end{bibunit}
\end{document}

Answer 1

Old question, but exactly my problem. I don't know much about TeXstudio, but I put together a hack to get it to work. There must be a better way. Somebody please post it.

1. Go to Options->Configure TeXstudio...
2. Select Commands from the options on the left
3. Scroll to BibTeX
4. Update the BibTeX command as described below

The default command should be "bibtex.exe %", which apparently runs bibtex on the main filename (without the extension). I added a list of executions of bibtex on bu# where # is a number from 1 to 9.

So the BibTeX command now looks like:

bibtex.exe % | bibtex.exe bu1 | bibtex.exe bu2 | bibtex.exe bu3 | bibtex.exe bu4 | bibtex.exe bu5 | bibtex.exe bu6 | bibtex.exe bu7 | bibtex.exe bu8 | bibtex.exe bu9

FYI, I am running TeXstudio 2.8.4 on Windows 7

Like I said, a hack. But it seems to work.

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Edit: I'm guessing TeXstudio does conditional "recompiles" of the bibliography based on whether it thinks there has been a change. I'm also guessing that it doesn't detect changes well with bibunits. Therefore, I've had to do (at least) three TeXstudio steps when using this hack. First, recompile main tex file. Second, recompile bib file (f11). Third, recompile main tex file again.

Answer 2

Change

bibtex.exe % 

to

bibtex ?a*/*.aux 

in

Options - Configure TeXstudio - Commands - BibTeX.

Source. Compile order: F6, F11, F6, F11, F6, F12, F1.

Answer 3

To add to Claudio Fiandrino's answer, I had some problems due to my path to the working directory having a space in it and so I was getting errors saying that Bibtex needed exactly one argument. I found that changing it to the following worked:

bibtex ?me*/*.aux

The '?m' uses the double-quoted filename without extension, and the 'e' adds the file extension.

(I would have added this as a comment but don't have enough reputation).

Answer 4

For using bibunits with Texstudio under Linux (Texstudio 2.12.22 in my case), I do the following:

1. Options -> Configure TeXstudio...

2. Select Build from the options on the left

3. Under user command, add the following command that implements the building procedure that is described in the bibunits documentation:

   /PATH/TO/SCRIPT/latex_bibunits.sh %.tex | txs:///view
   

With the bash script latex_bibunits.sh containing:

#!/bin/bash
FILE=$1
pdflatex $FILE
buFiles=$(ls bu*.aux)
for f in ${buFiles[@]}; do
    bibtex $f
done
pdflatex $FILE
pdflatex $FILE

Additionally, make sure that latex_bibunits.sh is executable, for example using chmod 755 latex_bibunits.sh.