[Tex/LaTex] Setting up TexMaker on Mac to work with biber

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I am trying to make TexMaker (Mac) work with biber. I, naively, tried to change the configuration of the TexMaker by replacing bibtex by biber, but of course such a primitive way of solving issues will never work.

This is the configuration line I have for BibLatex in my TexMaker Preferences:

"/usr/texbin/bibtex" %.blg

Can anybody help?

PS: I can compile and work with TexShop, but I prefer TexMaker.

Best Answer

To set up biber in Texmaker, do the following. Click on User, User Commands, Edit User Commands. You can define five custom commands there. Pick one that is unused (if any) and fill it as shown below.

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Click Ok.

The new command will then be featured in the list of available commands.

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Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Dummies Guide to Biber

Update

As of TeXShop version 3.21, TeXShop now accepts !BIB directives without the need of the script described in Mark Everitt's answer. You can simply put:

% !BIB TS-program = biber

% !BIB program = biber

(or bibtex as required).

Original answer

Mark Everitt's script is by far the most convenient way to switch between biber and bibtex in TeXShop automatically. As Caramdir suggests in the comments, if you want to use biber exclusively, then all you need to do is change the default BiBTeX engine from bibtex to biber in the TeXShop preferences.

I suspect that the reason Mark's script didn't work for you is that you didn't make it an executable file. Assuming you have save the script in /usr/texbin as Mark suggests in his answer, you also need to do the following (in the Terminal):

sudo chmod +x /usr/texbin/TeXShopBib.sh

Then you need to add the line

% !BIB TS-program = biber

to your document to have it use biber.

[Tex/LaTex] problems with biblatex and biber

Because the \addbibresource command in biblatex can in fact open other types of resources than .bib files (most notably, URLs, and experimentally RIS, and some XML formats), the file extension .bib is required. This is quite different from the \bibliography command (which it replaced) in which the extension was implicit.

So the solution to your problem is to use:

\addbibresource{<your-bib-file>.bib}