Biber (LaTeX)
Stable release |
2.4
/ March 6, 2016 |
---|---|
Development status | Active |
Written in | Perl |
Platform | Cross-platform |
License | Artistic License 2.0 |
Website |
biblatex-biber |
Biber is a bibliography information processing program and works in conjunction with the LaTeX package biblatex and offers full Unicode support.[1]
Information
Biber is a replacement for the BibTeX software often used to generate a bibliography in LaTeX. Biber offers a large superset of BibTeX functionality, and offers additionally 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.[1]
Biber is written in Perl and includes the following features: full Unicode support, user-definable mapping and suppression of fields, multiple bibliography lists, no memory limitations, and extensibility.[1] However, some LaTeX packages have an explicit dependence on BibTeX itself and will not work with biber, examples are natbib.
References
- 1 2 3 "Biber Web Site". Retrieved 26 January 2013.
External links
- Biber on SourceForge.net
- Explanation of biber vs BibTeX, biblatex vs natbib
- How to transition from natbib/bibtex to biber