source: pst/typesetting/biber.xml@ 89cdb63d

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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY biber-download-http   "http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber/&biber-version;/biblatex-biber.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY biber-download-ftp    " ">
  <!ENTITY biber-md5sum          "c46979acce3befdb3431ffadcc81bdf3">
  <!ENTITY biber-size            "2.0 MB">
  <!-- buildsize includes the installed biblatex -->
  <!ENTITY biber-buildsize       "37 MB">
  <!ENTITY biber-time            "less than 0.1 SBU (0.6 SBU to run the tests)">

  <!ENTITY biblatex-download-http   "http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex/files/biblatex-&biblatex-version;/biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz">
  <!ENTITY biblatex-download-ftp    "">
  <!ENTITY biblatex-md5sum          "c6dad1c1f8a46785981610b5165d9fe5">
  <!ENTITY biblatex-size            "19 MB">

]>

<sect1 id="biber" xreflabel="biber-&biber-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="biber.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>biblatex-biber-&biber-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="biber">
    <primary sortas="a-biber">Biber</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to biber</title>

    <para>Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in
    <application>Perl</application>, with full Unicode support.</para>

    &lfs78_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&biber-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&biber-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &biber-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &biber-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &biber-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &biber-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Required Additional Downloads</bridgehead>

    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
      <para>The corresponding version of <application>biblatex</application> is
      a separate project - the tds tarball is pre-packaged for untarring into
      the <filename class="directory">texmf-dist</filename> directory.
      Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&biblatex-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &biblatex-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &biblatex-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Required patch:
          <ulink url="&patch-root;/biblatex-biber-&biber-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Biber Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="perl-autovivification"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-business-isbn"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-business-ismn"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-business-issn"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-data-compare"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-data-dump"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-date-simple"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-encode-eucjpascii"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-encode-hanextra"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-encode-jis2k"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-file-slurp"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-ipc-run3"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-log-log4perl"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-lwp"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-list-allutils"/>
      <!-- this is pulled in by perl-text-bibtex, but mention it explicitly
      so that the note on automatically installing missing dependencies makes
      more sense -->
      <xref linkend="perl-module-build"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-regexp-common"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-text-bibtex"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-text-roman"/>
      <!-- Collate.pm ships in perl, but is sometimes too old, and we like current
      versions.  Make the latest version required so that everyone is using the
      same version.  In fact, the version in perl-5.20.2 is indeed too old for
      biber-2.0 -->
      <xref linkend="perl-unicode-collate"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-unicode-linebreak"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxml-simple"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-xml-libxslt"/>
      <xref linkend="perl-xml-writer"/> and
      <!-- untarring biblatex requires that the texmf directories already exist -->
      <xref linkend="texlive"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="perl-file-which"/>,
      <xref linkend="perl-test-differences"/>,
      <xref linkend="perl-test-pod"/> and
      <xref linkend="perl-test-pod-coverage"/> (all needed to run the testsuite)
    </para>

    <note>
      <para>
        Although the tarball name is unversioned, it will untar to a
        correctly-versioned biblatex-biber-&biber-version; directory.
      </para>

      <para>
        It is possible to install (all) missing dependencies automatically.
        From <application>perl-5.22.0</application> onwards,
        <xref linkend="perl-module-build"/> is no longer part of
        the core distribution.  To automatically install the remaining perl
        dependencies you will need to install that first.
        You can then run <command>perl ./Build.PL</command> and when it
        prompts you, become the root user and run
        <command>./Build installdeps</command>
      </para>

      <para>
        If you run <command>./Build.PL</command> under versions of
        <application>perl</application> after 5.20.2 it will tell you that the
        version of <application>Unicode::Normalize</application> is too
        <emphasis>new</emphasis>. In fact, the new version works, but is now
        pure perl and takes longer to run : <emphasis>much</emphasis> longer
        if you have a large bibliography.  You can find the old version at <ulink
        url="http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/S/SA/SADAHIRO/Unicode-Normalize-1.17.tar.gz"/>
        and use the standard <xref linkend="perl-standard-install"/>
        to install it if you wish. Further details are in the User Notes.
      </para>
    </note>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url='&blfs-wiki;/biber'/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Biber</title>

    <para>Install <application>Biber</application> by running the following
    commands (patching the read-only files will produce warnings):</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../biblatex-biber-&biber-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch &amp;&amp;
sed -i 's/ 44/ 43/' t/bcfvalidation.t &amp;&amp;
perl ./Build.PL &amp;&amp;
./Build</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, enter: <command>./Build test</command> - you will
    require the en_GB.UTF-8 and sv_SE.UTF-8 locales. Two tests (and two subtests)
    will fail : for speed the tests use system locales instead of the default
    Unicode::Collation algorithm, and some minor details of the locales in OSX
    (where development takes place) differ from those in
    <application>glibc</application></para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xf ../biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz -C /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist &amp;&amp;
texhash &amp;&amp;
./Build install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <parameter>patch -Np1 -i
      ../biblate-biber-&biber-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch</parameter>:
      <application>perl-5.22</application> has become more strict about
      what needs to be escaped.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>sed -i 's/ 44/ 43/' t/bcfvalidation.t</parameter>: Although
      the git master branch has 44 pairs of files for this test, the shipped
      tarball only contains 43. The sed prevents it failing.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>tar -xf biblatex-&biblatex-version;a.tds.tar.gz -C
      /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist</parameter>:
      this installs the new <application>biblatex</application> files over those
      installed by <application>texlive</application>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>texhash</parameter> : this updates the file hash tables (otherwise
      known as the file name database).
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>biber</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>/usr/lib/site_perl/5.*/Biber</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="biber-prog">
        <term><command>biber</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used for producing bibliographies in LaTeX documents.</para>
          <indexterm zone="biber biber-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-biber">biber</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>