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According to the man page for latexmk there is a command line option -latexoption=<option> for passing options to pdflatex, but there seems to be no similar way to pass options to biber.

Is there a way to pass options such as --validate-datamodel or --isbn-normalise to biber while using latexmk?

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  • In ~/.latexmkrc, add $biber='biber --validate-datamodel %O %S' (or whatever options you like).
    – Derek
    Sep 26, 2016 at 23:09
  • @Derek: Thanks, that worked perfectly! Please make it an answer so that I can accept it.
    – Mårten W
    Sep 26, 2016 at 23:16
  • Glad that helped!
    – Derek
    Sep 26, 2016 at 23:28

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In ~/.latexmkrc, add $biber='biber --validate-datamodel %O %S' (or whatever options you like)

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  • If I understand correctly a ; at the end of each command is needed, at least if there is more than one in .latexmkrc file.
    – Júda Ronén
    May 26, 2021 at 16:32
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I ran into an issue where I'm running latexmk from a build script and do not want the user to have to modify their ~/.latexmkrc file. For this, the options can be provided on the command line without changing the user's environment:

latexmk -e '$biber='"'"'biber --isbn-normalise %O %S'"'" [your_tex_file]
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