Re: [AUCTeX] TeXLive2011 Biber environment problem

[Guilhem Bourrié]

In your .tex file, you must have a command such as:

\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,sorting=nyt]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{/Users/haines/<pathname of your .bib file>/<mybiblio>.bib}
...
\begin{document}
...
\cite{<some key of your .bib file>}
...
\printbibliography
...
\end{document}

see the biblatex.pdf manual, you can obtain by: texdoc biblatex

you must not load some packages that are not compatible with biber,  
such as bibunits, chapterbib, natbib, as biber offers the same  
facilities and many more.

The commands are then:

pdflatex <myfile>.tex

biber <myfile>   % without the suffix .tex, or.bcf

and run another time

pdflatex <myfile>.tex

I run it by the terminal, with aquamacs and AucTeX, though I did not  
modify AucTeX to have biber command in the GUI.

best wishes,

Guilhem Bourrié

Haines Brown <address@hidden> a écrit :

> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 03:00:58PM +0200, Ivan Andrus wrote:
>
> > If it works from the command line, but not from AUCTeX the
> > difference might be the environment variables (especially if you
> > started Emacs from a desktop shortcut instead of the command line or
> > after updating .bashrc).  You can set them with `setenv':
> >
> > (setenv "BIBINPUTS" (concat "/home/haines/jabref:" (getenv
> > "BIBINPUTS")))
>
> I don't have a desktop, and so no icon shortcuts. I start emacs from a
> terminal.
>
> I dont understand. If I already have this environment:
>
>   $ echo $BIBINPUTS
>   /home/haines/jabref:
>
> so why do I have to redefine it by adding another statement in my
> ~/.bashrc?  I already have there:
> BIBINPUTS=/home/haines/jabref:$BIBINPUTS; export BIBINPUTS.
>
> > If it doesn't work from the command line, then it's almost certainly
> > not related to AUCTeX and this wouldn't be a good place to ask.
>
> I understand, but not sure how to interpret the result:
>
>   $ biber test.tex
>   INFO - This is biber 0.9.4
>   INFO - Logfile is 'test.tex.blg'
>   FATAL - Cannot find control file 'test.tex.bcf'! - did you pass the
>         "backend=biber" option to BibLaTeX?
>
> There is no test.tex.bcf file.
>
>   $ latex backend=biber test.tex
>   This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
>    restricted \write18 enabled.
>   entering extended mode
>   ! I can't find file `backend=biber'.
>   <*> backend=biber
>                   test.tex
>
> I have no biblatex command to which I might pass something:
>
>   $ which biblatex
>
>   $ which latex
>   /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux/latex
>
>   $ which biber
>   /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux/biber
>
>   $ which bibtex
>   /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux/bibtex
>
> Haines
>
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