Re: [MiKTeX] Biber

[<da...@sy...>]

I may be confused, but I thought that biber was one of the two biblatex backends. Can biblatex run without a backend?

 

 

From: Paul Thompson <pat...@gm...> 
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 3:34 PM
To: da...@sy...
Cc: mik...@li...
Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] Biber

 

Pretty sure that biber is deprecated in favor of biblatex.

 

https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Bibliography_management_in_LaTeX

 

Paul A Thompson

 

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM <da...@sy... <mailto:da...@sy...> > wrote:

Hello,
        I just re-installed MikTex from scratch. I ran the console and
performed all of the updates. Thus, I should be current. I am running on
Windows 11 64-bit. My issue is that biber seems to just freeze. It just
hangs until I terminate it via CTRL-C. I know my .bib file is correct. I ran
BibTeX on it and it is happy with the file. I would stick with BibTex,
except that the biblatex package with the style=apa option requires biber.
Has anyone else run into this issue? Is there a workaround?
        Thanks,
        Dave








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