Biber is a sophisticated bibliography processing backend for the LaTeX biblatex package. It supports a unsurpassed feature set for automated conformance to complex bibliography style requirements such as labelling, sorting and name handling. It has comprehensive Unicode support.

Features

  • Biber 2.21 is for biblatex 3.21
  • Polyglossia support
  • Unicode 15 support (including citekeys, filenames and sorting)
  • Auto (re)encodes .bbl as necessary
  • One biber run for all bib sections and XREF/CROSSREF processing
  • Now part of TeXLive
  • Static and dynamic citation set support
  • Customisable sorting specifications
  • Support for UTF-8 <-> TeX macro re-encoding to help PDFLaTeX+inputenc
  • Support for remote data sources
  • Highly configurable entry data inheritance model
  • Automatic name and name list disambiguation
  • Dynamic, comprehensive modification of incoming bibliography data
  • Generalised macro support with new @XDATA entrytype

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License

Artistic License 2.0

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User Reviews

  • With the latest version of Biber the run that took 2min 30 sec is down to 19 sec. Thank you very much for the great program
  • Very powerful, full UTF8 workflow.
  • I just switched form bibtex to the biber backend and I'm in general very pleased, however at the beginning there were a lot of errors, as biber seems to be more critical about the bibtex source files than bibtex was.
  • Great stuff.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Thanks for good program!
    1 user found this review helpful.
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Cygwin, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac, Solaris, Windows

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop, Science/Research

User Interface

Command-line

Programming Language

Perl

Related Categories

Perl Text Processing Software, Perl XML Software, Perl TeX LaTeX

Registered

2008-05-17