I'm experiencing a weird error which, being new to LaTeX, I have much trouble understanding, so I'll describe it chronologically.
I first experienced a crash of TeXworks when compiling. I was drawing a table using the tabular environment for the first time, it worked when compiling, then I tried to embed it in a theorem environment successfully, then tried to add text in the theorem before the table, and it crashed when compiling.
After this, I deleted all files except for the .tex
and the .bib
files, opened the .tex
file again, and when compiling, I got :
LaTeX Error: Command \bfseries invalid in math mode.
Then if I close, re-open and try to compile, crash again.
I removed the code for the table, same problems cycle.
I tried removing as much code as possible and noticed it compiles correctly ONLY IF I do not use \cite{bibkey}
(while before this incident it worked perfectly well).
So I tried to do the same by first compiling the .bib
file again, which worked fine, but then got the same error when compiling the .tex
file.
Here I am, this is the chronological description of the issue. What would you advise?
Best Answer
The most likely reason to get a
error when you
\cite
something is that the citation text has\bfseries
in math mode (which is an error)