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Why exactly does Biber need Command Line Tools?
Summarizing the comment here, the reason the Developer Tools need to be installed comes from the way the biber unpacks itself on first run. Each new version of the binary checks to see whether it is ...
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Package biblatex Warning: Please rerun LaTeX
Let's see, what happens while running LaTeX and Biber in your case:
While the first LaTeX run, LaTeX and biblatex do not have any information about the reference smith99 and therefore LaTeX reports ...
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Is “mon =” of any use in a bibtex file?
It is data that could potentially be used by any bibtex style such as the one below, it does not need a different program.
file.tex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Something about \cite{...
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Beamer theme metropolis does not allow different font size for fullcite
The difference between normal themes and metropolis is caused by metropolis explicitly setting normal size for various bibliography fonts.
As a quick hack you can revert this by using:
\documentclass{...
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No `\citation`, `\bibdata` or `\bibstyle` command
If you are using LaTeX-Workshop on Visual Studio Code and you have set biber as Biblatex backend in your .tex file
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
and still see errors in VSCode "Problems&...
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Display DOI in DeclareCiteCommand
You shouldn't have to use \thefield for printing. Instead use \printfield and friends or even better pre-defined bibmacros that print whole chunks of the data you want to show. You should also not ...
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Package biblatex Warning: Please rerun LaTeX
rerun messages don't need to be correct. E.g. this here issues a rerun message too:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\section{test}\label{test}
\end{document}
LaTeX does detect here that the ...
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Correct BibLaTeX+Biber sorting when the same author published using different given names
The question Alan Munn linked is relevant, but simply getting the sorting you want can be done, I think, just with sortname. The advantage of this is that it only overrides author or editor when ...
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Why biblatex sets the space factor fo the period to 1006?
Quoting egreg in another question related to csquotes:
...different space factors can be used to know what punctuation sign is the last character. The same strategy is used in amsthm.sty, which ...
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babel+newtx+superiours+stmaryrd+LS1+LS2+biblatex+biber+\cite+\mathsf+\mathit+\mathbf+\printbibliography = swallowed space after math mode
babel uses a definition equivalent to \ingnorespacesafterend to ignore spaces after \end{otherlanguage} but if someone (or some package) calls \endotherlanguage directly the ignore flag is set ...
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Why do I receive warnings after using biblatex?
I guess by "compiling", you mean "running LuaLaTeX". But what you need is to also run a second external program: biber. You need to run biber each time you add or delete \cite-type ...
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Switch from Overleaf to VS-Code
I use VS Code when I am finishing documents as the errors/duplicate labels functionality is really good plus source control. I believe your issue is being caused by the fact that the LaTeX extension ...
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How do you disable en and em dash ligatures in a biblatex/biber bibliography?
You may be interested in the longdash option of biblatex-mla. The documentation explains
The 9th edition of the MLA Handbook clarifies that dashes indicating multiple entries by one author can either ...
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Cannot find syntax error in bib-file
Solved it by posting here:
I somehow switched TeXworks to unicode quotation marks “”, while of course Biber needs "". In TeXworks, both variants look exactly alike for me, so I didn't notice ...
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How to declare a citation command that doesn't list its entry in the bibliography?
Perhaps I could set default options for the \printbibliography command
directly in my style files, but I didn't find any documentation or
implementation about this approach.
\...
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Package biblatex Warning: Please rerun LaTeX
The information you found on this site are partly deprecated. In particular this answer dates back to 2011 and indeed testing your example with a TL2013 installation confirms at that time there was ...
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Package biblatex Warning: Bibliography string 'presentedat' untranslated
Bold text in biblatex-generated output usually means something is missing or otherwise went wrong. And indeed looking at the .log output of your MWE we find
Package biblatex Warning: Bibliography ...
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Package biblatex Warning: Please rerun LaTeX
Just for comparison.
If you are using OpTeX, then you need only two runs: optex-optex and no external program (like Biber) is needed. I used exactly the same refs.bib file as given in your question. ...
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Biber tool mode: specify output field order in config file?
Currently, this isn't possible I'm afraid as the command-line options are separate from the config file options. The latter are really so that you can set the options that usually come from a .bcf, in ...
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Latexmk says "all targets are up-to-date" though bib file has been changed
In the document, the command \bibliography{refs.bib} was used to specify the .bib file instead of \addbibresource{refs.bib}. In this situation, latexmk (up to its current version 4.81) does not ...
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Add custom fields to biber data modell
You don't need to put the entire data model in the config file, only additions or changes. See the chapter "The Data Model" in the biber documentation: https://sourceforge.net/projects/...
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How to remove small capitals in citation, and keep them in the bibliogrpahy, when using biblatex with biblatex in french?
You can redefine \mkbibnamefamily just before printing your bibliography.
{
\protected\def\mkbibnamefamily#1{\textsc{#1}}
\printbibliography[title={I want to keep the small capitals here}]
}
Your ...
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`sorting=none` results in wrong order for ten or more references in one \cite{}
This is caused by a bug in Biber v2.18 that got resolved in v2.19.
Biber 2.18 introduced the intciteorder sort field (the order of entries in one \cite{}), which has since been used for sorting=none. ...
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Why don't the BibTeX files care about the spacing after the abbreviation-terminating periods?
As a general rule I'd say that you should keep tex markup in a bib database to a minimum, which simplifiies re-use of the data. It's already unfortunate that bibtex's lack of real support for non ...
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Journal name not showing up with custom citation style when BibTeX field type is "journal"
journal is a bit of a tricky field. It isn't really part of the standard data model. Instead it is resolved as an alias for journaltitle via the default driver source map (ll. 1339-1371 in biblatex....
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Bold cite keys in biblatex
Use \AtEveryCitekey and not \AtEveryCite.
The latter is appended to whenever you issue a citation command, and the manual specifically says:
No bibliographic data is available at this point.
The ...
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Biblatex not working with VSCode
From your comments its clear you're missing a LaTeX distro. Thus, it cannot work since VS Code doesn't install the TeX engine itself.
Look out for TeXLive or MiKTeX. I would go with the former, but ...
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How do I get biblatex and biber to work with MikTex?
After some initial problems I was able to run biber from the command line and read the messages. It was consistently stopping on the first syntax error and writing a message referring to a temporary ...
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Biber adding doi
Add
\DeclareFieldFormat{doi}{%
DOI\addcolon\space
\ifhyperref
{\href{https://doi.org/#1}{\nolinkurl{#1}}}
{\nolinkurl{#1}}%
}
to your code:
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{...
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Add prenote argument in DeclareCiteCommand
Within \DeclareCiteCommand and friends the prenote and postnote arguments can be accessed as if they were fields from the .bib file. So you can test for the presence or absence of prenote with \...
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