Biber (LaTeX)

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Biber
Original author(s) Philip Kime and François Charette [1]
Developer(s) Philip Kime, Ken Brown, Nikola Lečić, François Charette, moewe, Alexander Krumeich, Boris Veytsman, Apostolos Syropoulos [2] [3]
Stable release
2.20  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 21 March 2024;11 months ago (21 March 2024)
Repository github.com/plk/biber
Written in Perl
Platform Cross-platform
Available in English
License Artistic License 2.0
Website Official website OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Biber is a bibliography information processing program that works in conjunction with the LaTeX package BibLaTeX and offers full Unicode support. [4]

Biber is a widely used replacement for the BibTeX software. Both generate a bibliography in LaTeX, but Biber offers a large superset of BibTeX functionality. It also offers full Unicode support, which is hard to achieve with BibTeX. Given the same data file as input, biber should output a functionally identical .bbl file as BibTeX. [4]

Biber is written in Perl and includes the following features:

Some LaTeX packages have an explicit dependence on BibTeX itself and will not work with biber. The most important example is natbib, which provides style options for citation references. [5] However, natbib functionality can largely be recovered by using the natbib option to BibLaTeX, which is the LaTeX package for processing citation references that is commonly used in conjunction with biber. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "plk/biber: Backend processor for BibLaTeX". GitHub . 26 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  2. ↑ "Contributors to plk/biber". GitHub. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  3. ↑ "Biber Project Member List". SourceForge . Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  4. 1 2 "Biber: A BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX". biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  5. ↑ Daly, Patrick W. "Natural Sciences Citations and References (Author–Year and Numerical Schemes) [natbib.pdf]" (PDF). texdoc.net. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-18. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  6. ↑ "BibLaTeX – Sophisticated Bibliographies in LaTeX". CTAN.org. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
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