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Hellow.

After that I updated the MikTeX database, whenever I compile any latex code using biblatex with ABNT style, this follow error happens:

Undefined control sequence. \xpretobibmacro{textcite} after updating MikTeX database.

I can compile using such TeXStudio as commmand line that this error always repeats. I am going to put a MWE for analyzes and tests.

I thank for help in advance.

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[style=abnt,ittitles]{biblatex}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{bbding}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
    @book{TELFORD1990,
        author    = {William Murray Telford and Lloyd Philip Geldart and Robert Edward Sheriff},
        title     = {Applied geophysics},
        edition   = {2},
        address   = {Cambridge},
        publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
        year      = {1990}
    }
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}


\begin{document}
    \begin{table}[ht]
        \caption{Estilo \texttt{abnt}}
        \vspace{1em}
        \begin{tabular}{lll}
            \toprule
            COMANDO & SAÍDA ATUAL & SUGERIDA \ \midrule
            \verb+\cite{TELFORD1990}+       & \cite{TELFORD1990}        & \CheckmarkBold    \ \midrule
            \verb+\cite{TELFORD1990}+      & \cite{TELFORD1990}       & ---               \ \midrule
            \verb+\citetitle{TELFORD1990}+  & \citetitle{TELFORD1990}   & \CheckmarkBold    \ \midrule
            \verb+\citetitle{TELFORD1990}+ & \citetitle{TELFORD1990}  & Applied geophysics\ \midrule
            \verb+\citeyear{TELFORD1990}+   & \citeyear{TELFORD1990}    & \CheckmarkBold    \ \midrule
            \verb+\citeyear{TELFORD1990}+  & \citeyear{TELFORD1990}   & \CheckmarkBold    \ \midrule
            \verb+\citeauthor{TELFORD1990}+ & \citeauthor{TELFORD1990}  & \CheckmarkBold    \ \midrule
            \verb+\citeauthor{TELFORD1990}+& \citeauthor{TELFORD1990} & \CheckmarkBold    \ \midrule
            \verb+\textcite{TELFORD1990}+   & \textcite{TELFORD1990}    & \CheckmarkBold    \ \midrule
            \verb+\textcite{TELFORD1990}+  & \textcite{TELFORD1990}   & Telford, Geldart e Sheriff \
            \bottomrule
        \end{tabular}
    \end{table}
\end{document}
Adriano
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  • No error for me with an up-to-date TeX Live. Can you please report the exact error message you find in the log file? – egreg Sep 30 '21 at 21:12
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    Did you update in user and admin mode? – Ulrike Fischer Sep 30 '21 at 21:33
  • The example as posted works for me on a fully updated MikTeX system. Definitely check that you updated in User and Admin mode as Ulrike says: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/108447/35864. If that does not help we need to see the .log file. Run the minimised version of your example document from https://gist.github.com/moewew/b1acc005108dc5befbecfcc14904f3f2 and upload the complete .log file to a text-sharing website such as https://pastebin.com/, https://gist.github.com/, https://gitlab.com/explore/snippets – moewe Oct 01 '21 at 06:12
  • Also posted at https://github.com/abntex/biblatex-abnt/issues/83 – moewe Oct 01 '21 at 06:51
  • Indeed, I had not updated the MikTeX as admin mode. I forgot to do it. But I have updated the FNDB and the font map files in MikTeX console as admin mode, and whenever I have been running that MWE in command line, that error

    > Undefined control sequence. \xpretobibmacro{textcite} after updating MikTeX database.

    has been repeting as the same way.

     – Adriano Oct 01 '21 at 14:24
  • @moewe, I am going to run gist.github.com/moewew/b1acc005108dc5befbecfcc14904f3f2 and passing the .log by pastebin.com, according to you asked to me – Adriano Oct 01 '21 at 14:29
  • @moewe, I have runned your code, whose is avaliable in gist.github.com/moewew/b1acc005108dc5befbecfcc14904f3f2, and that error has been repeating yet. In this same link, I putted an answer with the .log file that was resulting of running. – Adriano Oct 01 '21 at 15:24
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    Your version of xpatch is outdated: You have xpatch 2012/10/02 v0.3, but the current version in MikTeX is xpatch 2020/03/25 v0.3a. Run a package update in the MikTeX Console in Admin mode. – moewe Oct 01 '21 at 15:32
  • @moewe, I tested your suggestion that updating the xpatch package. Indeed there was something wrong. When I went to check the version of this package, to my surprise, I had noted that it was not installed! It is so strange! Same thing happend with the beamer class and your package set. Because of that, I had the problem Extra \endgroup. \begin{document} with beamer. I don't know why it's happening after updating the MikTeX packages. By the way, I would like to ask to you formalizing your suggestion as an answer in order to I can sinalize as the problem solution. I thank you in advance. – Adriano Oct 03 '21 at 23:20

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Your version of xpatch is outdated: You have xpatch 2012/10/02 v0.3, but the current version in MikTeX is xpatch 2020/03/25 v0.3a.

On your system xpatch is installed in the MikTeX Admin tree. So it should be enough to run a package update in the MikTeX Console in Admin mode. If that does not help remove the package (if possible) and re-install it via the MikTeX Console (again in Admin mode).

moewe
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