[Tex/LaTex] Use biber and bibtex in Winedt

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Because of some journals sill require bibtex, I wanted to configure WinEdt to work with both bibtex and biber.

I installed the LaTeXify and now have the B+ button as shown here:

I am now trying to modify the commands for the "B+" button to work with Biber and leave the "B" button to work with bibtex. I modified the MainMenu.ini file as follows:

The "B+" button still remains grayed out. Can you help me get the "B+" configured to work such that after I run PDFLaTeX for example, the "B+" becomes active, then exectute biber when I select it? Thanks.

Best Answer

Don't modify the winedt macros. There will work out of the box.

You can see in the macros a filter line:

REQ_FILTER=

This filter contains a pattern for the bcf-file and means that the button can only be used if a bcf-file exists which biber can process. Run a small document with biblatex and then your button will be active.

On my system after a clean up the buttons look like this:

And after the compilation: . The bibtex button is now active too as its filter checks for the aux-file. The index button will be active if an idx exists.

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