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[http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net Biber] is a [[BibTeX]] replacement for users of [[biblatex]]. Biblatex relies on BibTeX only for sorting and generating a very generic .bbl file. Biber eliminates the need for BibTeX. It includes a pure [[perl]] BibTeX parser. Given the same data file as input, biber should output a functionally identical .bbl file as BibTeX. The advantages of no longer being dependent upon BibTeX include the following: full Unicode support, no memory limitations, and extensibility.
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| author = Philip Kime and François Charette<ref>{{cite web |title=plk/biber: Backend processor for BibLaTeX |url=https://github.com/plk/biber |website=[[GitHub]] |accessdate=30 August 2019 |date=26 August 2019}}</ref>
| developer = Philip Kime, Ken Brown, Nikola Lečić, François Charette, moewe, Alexander Krumeich, Boris Veytsman, Apostolos Syropoulos<ref>{{cite web |title=Contributors to plk/biber |url=https://github.com/plk/biber/graphs/contributors |website=GitHub |accessdate=30 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Biber Project Member List |url=https://sourceforge.net/p/biblatex-biber/_members/ |website=[[SourceForge]] |accessdate=30 August 2019}}</ref>
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'''Biber''' is a [[bibliography]] information processing program that works in conjunction with the [[LaTeX]] package BibLaTeX and offers full [[Unicode]] support.<ref name="bibersite">{{cite web |url=https://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/ |title=Biber: A BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX |website=biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net |accessdate=26 January 2013}}</ref>


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.<ref name="bibersite"/>
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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.

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.<ref name="natbibdoc">{{cite web |url=https://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/natbib/natbib.pdf |title=Natural Sciences Citations and References (Author–Year and Numerical Schemes) [natbib.pdf] |last=Daly |first=Patrick W. |website=texdoc.net |access-date=3 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118231823/https://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/natbib/natbib.pdf |archive-date=2021-01-18 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex?lang=en |title=BibLaTeX – Sophisticated Bibliographies in LaTeX |website=CTAN.org |access-date=3 February 2017}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{SourceForge|biblatex-biber|Biber}}
*[http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25701/bibtex-vs-biber-and-biblatex-vs-natbib/25702#25702 Explanation of biber vs BibTeX, biblatex vs natbib]
*[http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5091/what-to-do-to-switch-to-biblatex#5105 How to transition from natbib/bibtex to biber]

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Latest revision as of 13:29, 16 March 2024

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 Edit this on Wikidata / 21 March 2024; 9 months ago (21 March 2024)
Repositorygithub.com/plk/biber
Written inPerl
PlatformCross-platform
Available inEnglish
LicenseArtistic License 2.0
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

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:

  • full Unicode support
  • user-definable mapping and suppression of fields
  • multiple bibliography lists
  • no memory limitations, and extensibility.

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

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  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. ^ a b "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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