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I'm sure this is an amateur problem, but I can't seem to get my BibTeX bibliography to compile using pdfLaTeX. It worked before when I did Latex->DVI->PDF, but then I had to add some syntactic trees using tikz-qtree, which requires the document be compiled with pdfLaTeX. Now the bibliography doesn't compile. In the main document, I get a TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [parameter stack size=10000] error. In the MWE, no errors come back, but only "References" appears in the PDF. I'm thinking I may be missing a package in the preamble, or one of the other packages in my thesis (tikz, tikz-qtree, expex, tipa, mathtools, caption) may be causing the conflict. Deleting the .aux file, etc., and recompiling hasn't worked either. There are a few url links in the .bib file. I should note that when I usually compile my bibliography using BibTeX I use the LaTeX->DVI->PDF method rather than pdfLaTeX and it usually works fine. Using Kile on Ubuntu 11.10.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{apacite}
\usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}


\begin{document}



\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{apacann}
\bibliography{tewa_bib}


\end{document}

Here's the bibTeX contents, sorry I couldn't figure out how to upload it.

@book{dixon,
  author    = "Dixon, R.M.W.",
  year      = "2002",
  title     = "Australian {L}anguages: Their {N}ature and {D}evelopment",
  publisher = "New York: Cambridge University Press"
}

@article{harrison,
  author    = "Harrison, John P.",
  year      = "1910",
  title     = "A {B}rief {D}escription of the {T}ewa {L}anguage",
  journal   = "American Anthropologist",
  volume    = "12\textnormal{(2)}",
  pages     = "497--504"
}

@book{jackendoff83,
  author    = "Jackendoff, Ray",
  year      = "1983",
  title     = "Semantics and {C}ognition",
  publisher = "Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press"
}

@incollection{jackendoff96,
  author    = "Jackendoff, Ray",
  year      = "1996",
  title     = "The architecture of the linguistic--spatial interface",
  booktitle = "Language and {S}pace",
  volume    = "14\textnormal{(2)}",
  editor    = "Bloom, P. and Peterson, M. A. and Nadel, L. and Garrett, M. F.",
  pages     = "1--30"
}

@article{koopman,
  author    = "Koopman, Hilda",
  year      = "1977",
  title     = "Prepositions, {P}ostpositions, {C}ircumpositions, and {P}articles: The {S}tructure of {D}utch {PP}s"

}


@article{kroskrity78,
  author    = "Kroskrity, Paul",
  year      = "1978",
  title     = "Aspects of {S}yntactic and {S}emantic {V}ariation within the {A}rizona {T}ewa {S}peech {C}ommunity",
  journal   = "Anthropological Linguistics",
  volume    = "20\textnormal{(6)}",
  pages     = "235--257"

}

@article{kroskrity78a,
  author    = "Kroskrity, Paul",
  year      = "1978a",
  title     = "On the {L}exical {I}ntegrity of {A}rizona {T}ewa /-d\'i/: {A} {P}rincipled {C}hoice between {H}omophony and {P}olysemy",
  journal   = "International Journal of American Linguistics",
  volume    = "44\textnormal{(1)}",
  pages     = "24--30",

}

@article{kroskrity81,
  author    = "Kroskrity, P. and Healing, D.",
  year      = "1981",
  title     = "Coyote-{W}oman and the {D}eer {C}hildren ({A}rizona {T}ewa)",
  journal   = "Coyote Stories II",
  pages     = "119--128",
  publisher = "Chicago: University of Chicago Press"

}

@article{kroskrity85,
  author    = "Kroskrity, Paul",
  year      = "1985",
  title     = "A {H}olistic {U}nderstanding of {A}rizona {T}ewa {P}assives",
  journal   = "Language",
  volume    = "61\textnormal{(2)}",
  pages     = "302--328"

}

@incollection{svenonius10,
  author    = "Svenonius, Peter",
  title     = "Spatial {P} in {E}nglish",
  booktitle = "Cartography of Syntactic Structures",
  volume    = "6",
  year      = "2010",
  editor    = "Guglielmo Cinque and Luigi Rizzi",
  publisher = "Oxford University Press",
  howpublished = "\url{http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/000001}"

}

@article{kroskrity10,
  author    = "Kroskrity, Paul",
  year      = "2010",
  title     = "Arizona {T}ewa {K}iva {S}peech as a {M}anifestation of {L}inguistic {I}deology",
  journal   = "Pragmatics",
  volume    = "3\textnormal{(3)}",
  pages     = "297--309"

}

@book{martinez83,
  author    = "Martinez, Esther \& Povijua, Peter",
  year      = "1983",
  title     = "San {J}uan {P}ueblo {T}ewa {D}ictionary",
  publisher = "Portales, NM: Bishop Publishing Co.; A production of the San Juan Pueblo Bilingual Program"

}

@book{martinez84,
  author    = "Martinez, Esther", 
  year      = "1984",
  title     = "Tewa {T}ales",
  publisher = "Unknown Publisher"

}

@book{saeed,
  author    = "Saeed, John I.",
  year      = "1997", 
  title     = "Semantics",
  publisher = "United Kingdom: Blackwell Publishing"

}

@article{svenonius06,
  author    = "Svenonius, Peter",
  year      = "2006",
  title     = "The {E}mergence of {A}xial {P}arts",
  journal   = "Nordlyd: Troms\o{} Working Papers in Linguistics",
  volume    = "\textnormal{Special issue on adpositions}, 33 \textnormal{(1)}", 
  editor    = "Peter Svenonius \& Marina Pantcheva",
  pages     = "49--77",
  publisher = "Troms\o: CASTL",
  howpublished = "\url{http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/85}"

}

@book{adger09,
  author    = "Adger, D. and Harbour, D. and Watkins, L. J.",
  year      = "2009",
  title     = "Mirrors and {M}icroparameters: Phrase {S}tructure {B}eyond {F}ree {W}ord {O}rder", 
  publisher = "New York: Cambridge University Press"

}

@article{harbour12,
  author    = "Harbour, D. and Watkins, L. and Adger, D.",
  year      = "2012",
  title     = "Information structure, discourse structure, and noun phrase position in {K}iowa", 
  journal   = "International Journal of American Linguistics", 
  volume    = "78\textnormal{(1)}", 
  pages     = "97--126"

}

@book{lewis09,
  author    = "Lewis, M. P. (ed.)", 
  year      = "2009", 
  title     = "Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition",
  publisher = "Dallas, Tex.: SIL International",
  howpublished =  "Online version: \url{http://www.ethnologue.com/}"

}

@incollection{mithun92,
  author    = "Mithun, M.",
  year      = "1992",
  title     = "Is basic word order universal?",
  editor    = "Payne, D.",
  booktitle = "Pragmatics of {W}ord {O}rder {F}lexibility",
  pages     = "15--62",
  publisher = "Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins"

}
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  • This compiles fine here. Your sample file contains no text before the bibliography. Adding some text, gives no problem. Adding \usepackage{tikz} gives no problem. – Andrew Swann Aug 20 '12 at 11:23
  • Silly question, but did you compile with pdfLaTeX? It won't work for me, I still get an empty page with "References" at the top. Maybe I'm doing it wrong? It should be compiled: pdflatex->bibtex->pdflatex->pdflatex, right? – khelke Aug 20 '12 at 12:03
  • Does bibtex creat a file .bbl? If so, this file should contain the whole bibliography and it certainly should not be empty. – yo' Aug 20 '12 at 12:38
  • Yes, it does create a .bbl and it except for
    `\begin{thebibliography}{}`
    
    `\end{thebibliography}` 
    
    

    it is blank.

    – khelke Aug 20 '12 at 12:45
  • I'm running Kile 2.1 as an editor, not sure if that answers your question. When I run it on the MWE, I get the warning ".tewa/bbl:3 Empty 'thebibliography' environment input line 3". The damning thing is that yesterday I got it to compile but now it won't behave. – khelke Aug 20 '12 at 13:01
  • pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) kpathsea version 5.0.0 – khelke Aug 20 '12 at 13:29
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    Rather old. You should update. And the version of bibtex? – Mensch Aug 20 '12 at 13:33
  • BibTeX 0.99c (TeX Live 2009/Debian) kpathsea version 5.0.0

    Would you happen to know the terminal command for updating pdflatex?

    – khelke Aug 20 '12 at 13:40
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    Have a look to this question and to this. Help for updating please in a new question. – Mensch Aug 20 '12 at 13:54
  • @khelke -- I have the same versions on my computer (Ubuntu 11.10) and your file and bibliography compile fine (lots of warnings in your .bib file, however). I don't have tikz-qtree or expex to test with, however. Loading the other packages you mentioned doesn't change anything. I don't use kile either; have you tried doing this from the command line, and with all auxiliary files deleted? – jon Aug 20 '12 at 15:12
  • Yes when I compile from the command line and open the pdf I get a "cannot open file" error but when I compile in Kile it works with no errors but the page is blank. – khelke Aug 21 '12 at 07:45
  • @khelke -- And what does the .log say? Does the error recur if you delete any of the above packages? Have you checked which packages you are loading by adding \listfiles to the preamble (and looking at the .log)? It seems as though no one will be able to reproduce this problem, so you need to take extra troubleshooting steps, and report back here with further information. What if you use a different .bib file? It could be the .tex or .bib file has some funky encoding issues that may be making either pdflatex and/or your editor choke. – jon Aug 22 '12 at 00:27

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