DragonFly On-Line Manual Pages
BIBER(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation BIBER(1)
NAME
"biber" - A bibtex replacement for users of biblatex
SYNOPSIS
biber [options] file[.bcf] biber [options] --tool <datasource>
Creates "file.bbl" using control file "file.bcf" (".bcf" extension is
optional). Normaly use with biblatex requires no options as they are
all set in biblatex and passed via the ".bcf" file
In "tool" mode (see B<--tool> option), takes a datasource (defaults to
"bibtex" datasource) and outputs a copy of the datasource with any command-line
or config file options applied.
Please run "biber --help" for option details
DESCRIPTION
"biber" provides a replacement of the bibtex processor for users of
biblatex.
OPTIONS
--cache
If running as a PAR::Packer binary, show the cache location and
exit.
--clrmacros
Clears any BibTeX macros (@STRING) between BibLaTeX refsections.
This prevents BibTeX warnings about macro redefinitions if you are
using the same datasource several times for different refsections.
--collate|-C
Sort with "Unicode::Collate" instead of the built-in sort function.
This is the default.
--collate-options|-c [options]
Options to pass to the "Unicode::Collate" object used for sorting
(default is 'level => "4", variable => "non-ignorable"'). See
"perldoc Unicode::Collate" for details.
--configfile|-g [file]
Use file as configuration file for "biber". The default is the
first file found among biber.conf in the current directory,
"$HOME/.biber.conf", or else the output of "kpsewhich biber.conf".
In tool mode, (--tool) the biber-tool.conf installed with Biber is
always used to set defaults before potentially overriding the
defaults with a user-defined config specified with this option. Use
the --tool-config option to view the location of the default tool
mode config file.
--convert-control
Converts the .bcf control file into html using an XSLT transform.
Can be useful for debugging. File is named by appending ".html" to
.bcf file.
--decodecharsset=[recode set name]
The set of characters included in the conversion routine when
decoding LaTeX macros into UTF-8 (which happens when
--bblencoding|-E is set to UTF-8). Set to "full" to try harder with
a much larger set or "base" to use a smaller basic set. Default is
"base". You may want to try "full" if you have less common UTF-8
characters in your data source. The recode sets are defined in the
reencoding data file which can be customised. See the --recodedata
option and the PDF manual. The virtual set name "null" may be
specified which effectively turns off macro decoding.
--debug|-D
Turn on debugging for "biber".
--dot-include=section,field,xdata,crossref,xref,related
Specifies the element to include in GraphViz DOT output format if
the output format is 'dot'. You can also choose to display
crossref, xref, xdata and/or related entry connections. The
default if not specified is
"--dot_include=section,xdata,crossref,xref".
--fastsort|-f
Use Perl's sort instead of "Unicode::Collate" for sorting. Also
uses OS locale definitions (which may be broken for some languages
...).
--fixinits
Try to fix broken multiple initials when they have no space between
them in BibTeX data sources. That is, "A.B. Clarke" becomes "A. B.
Clarke" before name parsing. This can slightly mess up things like
"{U.K. Government}" and other esoteric cases.
--help|-h
Show this help message.
--input-directory [directory]
.bcf and data files will be looked for first in the directory. See
the biber PDF documentation for the other possibilities and how
this interacts with the "--output_directory" option.
--input-encoding|-e [encoding]
Specify the encoding of the data source file(s). Default is "UTF-8"
Normally it's not necessary to set this as it's passed via the .bcf
file from biblatex's "bibencoding" option. See "perldoc
Encode::Supported" for a list of supported encodings. The legacy
option --bibencoding is supported as an alias.
--input-format=bibtex|biblatexml
Biber input format. This option only means something in tool mode
(see tool option) since normally the input format of a data source
is specified in the .bcf file and therefore from the \addbibresouce
macro in BibLaTeX. The default value when in tool mode is 'bibtex'
--logfile [file]
Use file.blg as the name of the logfile.
--listsep=[sep]
Use sep as the separator for BibTeX data source list fields.
Defaults to BibTeX's usual 'and'.
--mincrossrefs|-m [number]
Set threshold for crossrefs.
--namesep=[sep]
Use sep as the separator for BibTeX data source name fields.
Defaults to BibTeX's usual 'and'.
--noconf
Don't look for a configfile.
--nodieonerror
Don't exit on errors, just log and continue as far as possible.
This can be useful if the error is something from, for example, the
underlying BibTeX parsing C library which can complain about
parsing errors which can be ignored.
--nolog
Do not write any logfile.
--nostdmacros
Don't automatically define any standard macros like month
abbreviations. If you also define these yourself, this option can
be used to suppress macro redefinition warnings.
--onlylog
Do not write any message to screen.
--others-string=[string]
Use string as the final name in a name field which implies "et al".
Defaults to BibTeX's usual 'others'.
--output-align
Align field values in neat columns in output. Effect depends on the
output format. Default is true. The legacy option --tool_align is
supported as an alias.
--output-directory [directory]
Output files (including log files) are output to directory instead
of the current directory. Input files are also looked for in
directory before current directory (but after "--input_directory"
if that is specified).
--output-encoding|-E [encoding]
Specify the encoding of the output ".bbl" file. Default is "UTF-8".
Normally it's not necessary to set this as it's passed via the .bcf
file from biblatex's "texencoding" option. See "perldoc
Encode::Supported" for a list of supported encodings. The legacy
option --bblencoding is supported as an alias.
--output-indent=[num]
Indentation for body of entries in output. Effect depends on the
output format. Defaults to 2. The legacy option --tool_indent is
supported as an alias.
--output-fieldcase=upper|lower|title
Case for field names output. Effect depends on the output format.
Defaults to 'upper'. The legacy option --tool_fieldcase is
supported as an alias.
--output-file|-O [file]
Output to file instead of basename.bbl file is relative to
--output_directory, if set (absolute paths in this case are
stripped to filename only). file can be absolute if
--output_directory is not set. The legacy option --outfile is
supported as an alias.
--output-format=dot|bibtex|biblatexml|bbl
Biber output format. Default if not specified is of course, bbl.
Use dot to output a GraphViz DOT file instead of .bbl. This is a
directed graph of the bibliography data showing entries and, as
requested, sections and fields. You must process this file with
"dot", e.g. "dot -Tsvg test.dot -o test.svg" to render the graph.
See the --dot_include option to select what is included in the DOT
output. The legacy option --outformat is supported as an alias.
--output-macro-fields=[field1, ... fieldn]
A comma-separated list of field names whose values are, on output,
treated as BibTeX macros. Effectively this means that they are not
wrapped in braces. Effect depends on the output format. The legacy
option --tool_macro_fields is supported as an alias.
--output-resolve
Whether to resolve aliases and inheritance (XDATA, CROSSREF etc.)
in tool mode. Defaults to 'false'. The legacy option
--tool_resolve is supported as an alias.
--output-safechars
Try to convert UTF-8 chars into LaTeX macros when writing the
output. This can prevent unknown char errors when using PDFLaTeX
and inputenc as this doesn't understand all of UTF-8. Note, it is
better to switch to XeTeX or LuaTeX to avoid this situation. By
default uses the --output_safecharsset "base" set of characters.
The legacy option --bblsafechars is supported as an alias.
--output-safecharsset=[recode set name]
The set of characters included in the conversion routine for
--output_safechars. Set to "full" to try harder with a much larger
set or "base" to use a basic set. Default is "base" which is fine
for most use cases. You may need to load more macro packages to
deal with the results of "full" (Dings, Greek characters, special
symbols etc.). The recode sets are defined in the reencoding data
file which can be customised. See the --recodedata option and the
PDF manual. The legacy option --bblsafecharsset is supported as an
alias. The virtual set name "null" may be specified which
effectively turns off macro encoding.
--quiet|-q
Log only errors. If this option is used more than once, don't even
log errors.
--recodedata=[file]
The data file to use for the reencoding between UTF-8 and LaTeX
macros. It defines the sets specified with the
--output_safecharsset and --decodecharsset options. It defaults to
recode_data.xml in the same directory as Biber's Recode.pm module.
See the PDF documentation for the format of this file. If this
option is used, then file should be somewhere "kpsewhich" can find
it.
--sortcase=true|false
Case-sensitive sorting (default is true).
--sortfirstinits=true|false
When sorting names, use only the first name initials, not full
first name. Some people expect the biblatex firstinits option to do
this but it needs to be a separate option in case users, for
example, need to show only initials but sort with full first names
(default is false).
--sortlocale|-l [locale]
Set the locale to be used for sorting. With default sorting
(--collate|-C), the locale is used to add CLDR tailoring to the
sort (if available for the locale). With --fastsort|-f this sets
the OS locale for sorting.
--sortupper=true|false
Whether to sort uppercase before lowercase when using default
sorting (--collate|-C). When using --fastsort|-f, your OS collation
locale determines this and this option is ignored (default is
true).
--ssl-nointernalca
Don't try to use the default Mozilla CA certificates when using
HTTPS to fetch remote data. This assumes that the user will set
one of the perl LWP::UserAgent module environment variables to find
the CA certs.
--ssl-noverify-host
Turn off host verification when using HTTPS to fetch remote data
sources. You may need this if the SSL certificate is self-signed
for example.
--tool
Run in tool mode. This mode is datasource centric rather than
document centric. biber reads a datasource (and a config file if
specified), applies the command-line and config file options to the
datasource and writes a new datasource. Essentially, this allows
you to change your data sources using biber's transformation
options (such as source mapping, sorting etc.)
--tool-config
Show the location of the default tool mode config file and exit.
Useful when you need to copy this file and customise it.
--trace|T
Turn on tracing. Also turns on --debug|d and additionally provides
a lot of low-level tracing information in the log.
-u Alias for --input_encoding=UTF-8
-U Alias for --output_encoding=UTF-8
--validate-config
Schema validate the biber config file.
--validate-control
Schema validate the .bcf biblatex control file.
--validate-datamodel|-V
Validate the data against a data model.
--version|-v
Display version number.
--wraplines|-w
Wrap lines in the .bbl file.
--xsvsep=[sep]
Use sep as the separator for fields of format type "xsv" in the
data model. A Perl regexp can be specified. Defaults to a single
comma surround by optional whitespace (\s*,\s*).
AUTHOR
Francois Charette, "firmicus at ankabut.net"
Philip Kime, "Philip at kime.org.uk"
BUGS & DOCUMENTATION
To see the full documentation, run texdoc biber or get the biber.pdf
manual from SourceForge.
Please report any bugs or feature requests on our Github tracker at
<https://github.com/plk/biber/issues>.
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2009-2015 Francois Charette and Philip Kime, all rights
reserved.
This module is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
perl v5.20.2 2015-09-16 BIBER(1)