$Id: README,v 0.7 2007/12/09 14:52:00 lehman beta $ Please be advised that this package is in beta stage and released for testing only. TeX distributors are advised to wait for version 1.0. The version number will be stepped up to 1.0 as soon as it is considered suitable for general distribution. See the file `RELEASE' for additional release notes. ABOUT The biblatex package is a complete reimplementation of the bibliographic facilities provided by LaTeX in conjunction with BibTeX. It redesigns the way in which LaTeX interacts with BibTeX at a fairly fundamental level. With biblatex, BibTeX is only used to sort the bibliography and to generate labels. Instead of being implemented in BibTeX's style files, the formatting of the bibliography is entirely controlled by TeX macros. Good working knowledge in LaTeX should be sufficient to design new bibliography and citation styles. There is no need to learn BibTeX's postfix stack language. Just like the bibliography styles, all citation commands may be freely (re)defined. Apart from the features unique to biblatex, the package also incorporates core features of the following packages: babelbib, backref, bibtopic, bibunits, chapterbib, cite, citeref, inlinebib, mlbib, multibib, natbib, splitbib. There are also some conceptual parallels to the amsrefs package. The biblatex package supports split bibliographies, multiple bibliographies within one document, and separate lists of bibliographic shorthands. Bibliographies may be subdivided into parts (by chapter, by section, etc.) and/or segmented by topics (by type, by keyword, etc.). The package is fully localized and can interface with the babel package. LICENSE Copyright (c) 2006--2007 Philipp Lehman. This package is author-maintained. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this software under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), version 1.3. This software is provided `as is', without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. INSTALLATION Copy all files found in the `latex' subdirectory to /tex/latex/biblatex/ and the file in the `bibtex' subdirectory to /bibtex/bst/ where denotes the root of the local TeX installation tree, for example /usr/local/share/texmf/ or c:\localtexmf\ Note that you may have to create those directories if this is the first package you're installing locally (as opposed to via a package manager). Don't forget to update the file hash tables after installing the files. Please see the following TeX FAQ answers for further details: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instpackages http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=wherefiles http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tds The manual and the example files in the `doc' subdirectory may be copied to the `doc' subdirectory of the local TeX installation tree or to any other place where you will find them later. USAGE Refer to biblatex.pdf for a systematic reference manual and to the `examples' subdirectory for usage examples. CHANGES A list of changes relevant to users of this package is included at the end of `biblatex.pdf'. See also the release notes in `RELEASE'.