I am trying since few days to solve a problem with Biblatex, which can't compile any of my references. I am running TeX Live 2013 (MacTeX) with Aquamacs as editor, biber 1.7 and biblatex 2.7. All packages are updated.
Strangely enough, Biblatex doesn't print any error while running (actually in the mini-buffer it says that the process was successful). The only line in the log where it shows any problem is the last one, when it says Biber abort trap: 6 at Wed Aug 14 09:33:22
The problem disappears if instead of Biblatex I switch to BibTex as backend: BibTex compiles correctly all the references (even though it gives two errors Your field is more than 20000 characters---line 1223 of file...
and "{" immediately follows a field name---line 1698 of file...
; in both cases BibTex concludes with I'm skipping whatever remains of this entry
and finishes successfully the job).
Now I just tried to run Biblatex as backend on a different bib file on the same tex file: now Biblatex compiles successfully. I then guess Biblatex doesn't like my bib file exported from Zotero.
From where I start to get my bib compatible with Biblatex?
MWE (When I replace backend=biber
with backend=biblatex
the following works):
%test.tex
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
% Create command for paragraph style (new line after)
\newcommand{\myparagraph}[1]{\paragraph{#1}\mbox{}\\}
% Set the values for the bibliography
\usepackage[
backend=biber,
isbn=false,
url=false,
doi=false,
eprint=false,
]{biblatex}
%Point to the bibliography db
\addbibresource{ZoteroOutput.bib}
\begin{document}
\fullcite{greenwade93}
\include{test_chap}
\end{document}
%test_chap.tex
\fullcite{greenwade93}
First bib entry (here posted first, problematic and final lines):
@book{rainie2012,
address = {Cambridge, {MA}},
title = {Networked: The New Social Operating System},
isbn = {0262017199},
shorttitle = {Networked},
publisher = {{MIT} Press},
author = {Rainie, Lee and Wellman, Barry},
year = {2012},
annote = {Extracted Annotations {(Tue} Jun 25 20:12:42 2013)
{"Are} people huddling alone in front of their screens? If they are connecting with someone online, is it a vague simulacrum of real community with people they could have seen, smelled, heard, and touched in the {\textquotedblleft} g ood old days" {(Rainie} and Wellman 2012:17)
{"Our} research supports the notion that small, densely knit groups like families, villages, and small organizations have receded in recent generations. A different social order has" {(Rainie} and Wellman 2012:17)
... Missing lines here (It is very long)
"technology supported task coordination, in the sense that everyone knew what everyone else was working on" {(Rainie} and Wellman 2012:199)
{"ICTs} supported {\textquotedblleft} distributed cognition, {\textquotedblright} enabling team members to share and integrate their own diverse perspectives" {(Rainie} and Wellman 2012:199)
"variety of {ICTs} enabled the teams to interact in many ways, using the media they felt was most appropriate to the task at hand" {(Rainie} and Wellman 2012:199) %%this is line 1223 (starting with "variety...)
"appears that networked work and networked organizations are better at linking ideas {\textemdash} bits {\textemdash} t han at linking parts {\textemdash} atoms" {(Rainie} and Wellman 2012:199)
{"ICTs} convey fewer social cues than in-person contacts. That is why people travel to meet in person: to build trust, develop nuanced understanding, and exchange tacit knowledge" {(Rainie} and Wellman 2012:200)
... Missing lines
{"Rochelle} C \^{o} t \'{e} Gabriele Plickert, and Barry Wellman, {\textquotedblleft} Does the Golden Rule, Rule? {\textquotedblright} in Contexts of Social Capital ed. {Ray-May} Hsung, Nan Lin, and Ronald Breiger {(London:} Routledge, 2009), 49 {\textendash} 71" {(Rainie} and Wellman 2012:348)
{"Eli} Pariser, T he Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You {(London:} Penguin, 2011" {(Rainie} and Wellman 2012:351)}
},
Second bib entry:
@book{shirky2008, %This is problematic line 1698
address = {New York, {NY}},
title = {Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations},
isbn = {9780713999891},
shorttitle = {Here Comes Everybody},
abstract = {Read Clay Shirky's posts on the Penguin Blog. A revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill A handful of kite hobbyists scattered around the world find each other online and collaborate on the most radical improvement in kite design in decades. A midwestern professor of Middle Eastern history starts a blog after 9/11 that becomes essential reading for journalists covering the Iraq war. Activists use the Internet and e-mail to bring offensive comments made by Trent Lott and Don Imus to a wide public and hound them from their positions. A few people find that a world-class online encyclopedia created entirely by volunteers and open for editing by anyone, a wiki, is not an impractical idea. Jihadi groups trade inspiration and instruction and showcase terrorist atrocities to the world, entirely online. A wide group of unrelated people swarms to a Web site about the theft of a cell phone and ultimately goads the New York City police to take action, leading to the culprit's arrest. With accelerating velocity, our age's new technologies of social networking are evolving, and evolving us, into new groups doing new things in new ways, and old and new groups alike doing the old things better and more easily. You don't have to have a {MySpace} page to know that the times they are a changin'. Hierarchical structures that exist to manage the work of groups are seeing their raisons d'tre swiftly eroded by the rising technological tide. Business models are being destroyed, transformed, born at dizzying speeds, and the larger social impact is profound. One of the culture's wisest observers of the transformational power of the new forms of tech-enabled social interaction is Clay Shirky, {andHere} Comes Everybodyis his marvelous reckoning with the ramifications of all this on what we do and who we are. Like Lawrence Lessig on the effect of new technology on regimes of cultural creation, Shirky's assessment of the impact of new technology on the nature and use of groups is marvelously broad minded, lucid, and penetrating; it integrates the views of a number of other thinkers across a broad range of disciplines with his own pioneering work to provide a holistic framework for understanding the opportunities and the threats to the existing order that these new, spontaneous networks of social interaction represent. Wikinomics, yes, but also wikigovernment, wikiculture, wikievery imaginable interest group, including the far from savory. A revolution in social organization has commenced, and Clay Shirky is its brilliant chronicler.},
publisher = {Penguin Books},
author = {Shirky, Clay},
year = {2008},
keywords = {Francesco {PhD}}
},
EDIT: After removing the annotations (see "annote" field above) while exporting the bibliography with Zotero I partially solved the problem: now BibLatex complete the job (I am able to import references running Latex). Still I got warnings for the first line of each entry (even after changing text coding to UTF-8).
This is the output after running BibLatex (on a UTF-8 coded .bib file):
Running `Biber' on `myfile' with ``myfile''
INFO - This is Biber 1.7
INFO - Logfile is 'myfile.blg'
INFO - Reading 'myfile.bcf'
INFO - Found 1 citekeys in bib section 0
INFO - Found 9 citekeys in bib section 1
INFO - Found 1 citekeys in bib section 0
INFO - Found 7 citekeys in bib section 2
INFO - Found 1 citekeys in bib section 0
INFO - Found 15 citekeys in bib section 3
INFO - Found 1 citekeys in bib section 0
INFO - Processing section 0
INFO - Looking for bibtex format file '/my/path/ZoteroOutput.bib' for section 0
INFO - Found BibTeX data source '/my/path/ZoteroOutput.bib'
WARN - BibTeX subsystem: /var/folders/4b/v7yn1_5h8xq1p3006s6jvcg00000gn/T/H0EsS1omok/ZoteroOutput.bib_5763.utf8, line 13, warning: 1 characters of junk seen at toplevel
WARN - BibTeX subsystem: /var/folders/4b/v7yn1_5h8xq1p3006s6jvcg00000gn/T/H0EsS1omok/ZoteroOutput.bib_5763.utf8, line 28, warning: 1 characters of junk seen at toplevel
WARN - BibTeX subsystem: /var/folders/4b/v7yn1_5h8xq1p3006s6jvcg00000gn/T/H0EsS1omok
...MISSING TEXT...
/ZoteroOutput.bib_5763.utf8, line 3954, warning: 1 characters of junk seen at toplevel
WARN - BibTeX subsystem: /var/folders/4b/v7yn1_5h8xq1p3006s6jvcg00000gn/T/H0EsS1omok/ZoteroOutput.bib_5763.utf8, line 3970, warning: 1 characters of junk seen at toplevel
WARN - BibTeX subsystem: /var/folders/4b/v7yn1_5h8xq1p3006s6jvcg00000gn/T/H0EsS1omok/ZoteroOutput.bib_5763.utf8, line 3985, warning: 1 characters of junk seen at toplevel
WARN - BibTeX subsystem: /var/folders/4b/v7yn1_5h8xq1p3006s6jvcg00000gn/T/H0EsS1omok/ZoteroOutput.bib_5763.utf8, line 3997, warning: 1 characters of junk seen at toplevel
WARN - BibTeX subsystem: /var/folders/4b/v7yn1_5h8xq1p3006s6jvcg00000gn/T/H0EsS1omok/ZoteroOutput.bib_5763.utf8, line 4009, warning: 1 characters of junk seen at toplevel
INFO - Overriding locale 'en_US.UTF-8' default tailoring 'variable = shifted' with 'variable = non-ignorable'
INFO - Sorting 'entry' list 'nty' keys
INFO - No sort tailoring available for locale 'en_US.UTF-8'
INFO - Processing section 1
INFO - Looking for bibtex format file '/Users/francesco/Dropbox/Papers/BibTex/ZoteroOutput.bib' for section 1
INFO - Overriding locale 'en_US.UTF-8' default tailoring 'variable = shifted' with 'variable = non-ignorable'
INFO - Sorting 'entry' list 'nty' keys
INFO - No sort tailoring available for locale 'en_US.UTF-8'
INFO - Processing section 2
INFO - Looking for bibtex format file '/my/path/ZoteroOutput.bib' for section 2
INFO - Overriding locale 'en_US.UTF-8' default tailoring 'variable = shifted' with 'variable = non-ignorable'
INFO - Sorting 'entry' list 'nty' keys
INFO - No sort tailoring available for locale 'en_US.UTF-8'
INFO - Processing section 3
INFO - Looking for bibtex format file '/my/path/ZoteroOutput.bib' for section 3
INFO - Overriding locale 'en_US.UTF-8' default tailoring 'variable = shifted' with 'variable = non-ignorable'
INFO - Sorting 'entry' list 'nty' keys
INFO - No sort tailoring available for locale 'en_US.UTF-8'
INFO - Writing 'annotated_bibliography.bbl' with encoding 'ascii'
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INFO - Output to annotated_bibliography.bbl
INFO - WARNINGS: 316
Biber finished at Wed Aug 21 18:46:40