bibtex won't compile correctly -- probably because I'm not doing it right

[M-K-G]

Hi,
I can't seem to get TeXiFy on PyCharm to compile my citations correctly. I tried various MWEs with no success. It do get everything to work OK when I typeset those MWEs with lateymk in TexShop. I'm also getting the correct output if I run "pdflatex, bibtex, pdflatex, pdflatex" from the command line. So my LaTeX distribution seems to be OK. I just can't get it to work with TeXiFy (and Atom for that matter). Following the invite by PHPirate on tex.stackexchange.com, I'm posting my problem here (-- thanks!)

Community on tex.stackexchange.com confirmed there's nothing wrong with the MWE. But for due diligence, here's the .tex content:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
    When you are not looking at it, this sentences stops citing~\cite{knuth1990}.

\bibliography{references}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\end{document}

And the .bib content:

@Book{knuth1990,
author    = {Knuth, Donald E.},
title     = {The {\TeX}book },
year      = {1990},
isbn      = {0-201-13447-0},
publisher = {Addison\,\textendash\,Wesley},
}

I'm working with TeXiFy 0.7.14 on PyCharm 2021.2.4 (Professional Edition) on MacOS Monterey Version 12.2.1. I'm not sure what other details (e.g. in my configuration) to report on. I tried various things/settings without success.
Any help would be very much appreciated.

[PHPirates]

Thanks for asking here. TeXiFy should handle bibtex out of the box, and fortunately it works for most cases, but unfortunately not for you. We are always looking for edge cases that need to be improved.

• Delete all the run configurations you have
• Now, open the main.tex file click on the gutter icon next to \begin{document} and click compile (or use the shortcut to do this, I guess it's command + shift + F10).
• TeXiFy should run pdflatex, then bibtex, then pdflatex, then pdflatex again. So it should look like this:

• Check that all the paths in both run configurations make sense.
• If the output directory is not the same as the directory the main file is in, you need to ensure you have a BIBINPUTS environment variable in the bibtex run config. Again, TeXiFy should do all this automatically.
• Which LaTeX distribution are you using, mactex?

I think we need to improve this wiki page: https://github.com/Hannah-Sten/TeXiFy-IDEA/wiki/BibTeX#compiling (you are encouraged to edit it yourself)

My run configs:

[PHPirates]

Yes, the subfiles package should be supported, see here for MWE: https://github.com/Hannah-Sten/TeXiFy-IDEA/wiki/Automatic-package-importing#subfiles

Can you piece together an MWE with both bibtex and subfiles, so that it actually works as expected when you run pdflatex and bibtex from the terminal? Then if it works manually but not with TeXiFy, it is clear that it is a problem with TeXiFy.

[M-K-G]

It's been a while. subfiles works nicely with my MWE. Just one minor thing (which hasn't impacted compilation so far):
PyCharm nudges me with the error message "Package has already been included".

A side question: Is there a way to add a shortcut like CMD+i to insert "\textit{}" --- maybe even wrapped a selection with "\textit{" and "}"?

Thanks a lot!

[PHPirates]

Does that happen with the MWE I mentioned?

Yes, see https://github.com/Hannah-Sten/TeXiFy-IDEA/wiki/Live-templates and https://github.com/Hannah-Sten/TeXiFy-IDEA/wiki/Postfix-templates

[M-K-G]

Yes, it happens with the subfiles MWE. I fact, I just started a new project based on that MWE and got this error.

Thanks for the live/postfix template links.

[PHPirates]

Thanks, you are right, I can reproduce it actually. Please open a new issue for it so I don't forget to fix that