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Suddenly I cannot compile my bibTex files anymore (Biber, TeXmaker, MacTeX) [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Engines of Tex-Editors and Biber/Biblatex I am currently working on a bunch of little assignments for university. Everything was fine until yesterday: All of a sudden ...
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XeLaTeX and Biber do not Produce a *.bbl File

MiKTeX (updated); TeXworks Used to do this a couple of months ago, now after PC and MiKTeX reinstall (Win7) bibliographies on old files seem not to be working any more. Read many similar questions, no ...
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Latex warning: Empty Bibliography on input [closed]

I have a problem with generating the bibliography at the end of the chapter. Translation doing the Windows command line in: xelatex main.tex. The files have UTF8 encoding. I use XeTeX, Version ...
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biblatex \printbibliography [closed]

The biblatex helped me to fix problems with the utf8 encoding but: I can not get a bibliography and the citations are not formated. I am using windows 7 (64bit) with MiTeX 2.9 and Texmaker. I use a ...
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no citations / bibliography after updating biblatex from 1.7 to 2.2

I am using MacTex and Latexian to write my thesis. I use biblatex for my bibliography and everything worked fine until I discovered that I can change the Alphabetic-labels with ...
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Why do we need add on programs like Biber and MakeIndex?

The creation of biblatex has made bst files obsolete allowing the formatting to be done by LaTeX and not an add on program like BibTeX, but it didn't completely eliminate the need for an add on ...
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Middle names treated in a random way in the bibliography

I do not have a problem with all authors who have a first and surname only; e.g John Smith. Problems come when introducing middle names. John P. Smith, J. P. Smith, J P Smith, Smith, J. P. All these ...
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Citing many long URLs (shortening and numbering)

In my thesis I have to quote a lot from a single weblog. The URLs are mostly of this structure: blogname.providername.com/stories/123456 ...
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What's the relation between NbibTeX and biblatex/biber?

Both projects want to replace BibTeX in a way but with different goals. Searching for both search terms at the same time is a rather frustrating experience. Is there any mutual recognition at all? Can ...
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Best way to do referencing with LaTeX? - I use Zotero to manage citations [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib What's the best way to add references and a bibliography to a LaTeX document? Note: I'm using Zotero as my citation manager, ...
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Switching from BibTex to BibLaTeX: empty bibliography error [closed]

I have been using BibTex and natbib for a while for my references. Now I am trying to switch to BibLaTeX it throws errors: LaTeX Warning: Empty bibliography on input line 15. Together with an ...
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Using biber with gedit + rubber

I've been having a lot of problems trying to switch to biblatex with biber from bibtex, and after a few problems solved I'm at loss. The situation now: biblatex works when not using biber as a ...
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In TeXShop, is there a directive to select biber or BibTeX on a per-document basis?

As in the title, I'd like to be able to select whether TeXShop uses biber or BibTeX in the document rather than using the command line or changing the default in the TeXShop preferences. For TeX ...
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Compatibility of bibtex and biblatex bibliography files?

In the answer to bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib the advantages and disadvantages of Biber vs. BibTeX (and of natbib vs. biblatex) were explained. However, one point was omitted: The question ...
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bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib

I've heard of many different bibliography-related packages/platforms/?. What's the difference between the following, which is good for what tasks, advantages/disadvantages, which one is the most ...
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Customising emacs to use biblatex-biber instead of bibtex

I use biblatex, but I still go through running bibtex on my .bib files, rather than biblatex-biber, which is/will be preferred. How do I arrange for C-c C-c to run the relevant biber command, rather ...