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CTAN package update: biblatex 0.2

Date: September 7, 2006 1:33:05 PM CEST
Philipp Lehman writes: > I've uploaded `biblatex.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/exptl/biblatex. Please > purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as > usual. > > Thank you very much. > > RELEASE NOTES > > See the file `RELEASE' for release notes. > > CHANGES > > Added bibliography categories > Added \DeclareBibliographyCategory > Added \addtocategory > Added "category" and "notcategory" filters > Added \bibbycategory > Added usage examples for bibliography categories > Added documentation of configuration file > Added documentation of \ExecuteBibliographyOptions > Added documentation of \AtBeginBibliography > Added \AtEveryBibitem > Added \AtEveryCite > Added \AtEveryCitekey > Added optional argument to \printtext > Added \ifpage > Added \ifpages > Added field "titleaddon" > Added field "booktitleaddon" > Added field "maintitleaddon" > Added field "library" > Added field "part" > Added field "origlocation" > Added field "origtitle" > Added field "origyear" > Added field "origlanguage" > Modified profile of field "language" > Extended entry type "book" > Extended entry type "inbook" > Extended entry type "collection" > Extended entry type "incollection" > Extended entry type "proceedings" > Extended entry type "inproceedings" > Added entry type alias "www" > Added compatibility code for the showkeys package > Support arbitrary characters in "keyword" and "notkeyword" filters > Support arbitrary characters in "keywords" field > Ignore spaces after commas in "keywords" field > Internal rearrangement of all bibliography styles > Fixed various bugs > > 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. i have installed the update on CTAN macros/latex/exptl/biblatex thanks for the upload. the catalogue isn't much changed since v0.1, but users may conveniently access the package via the catalogue page http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html thanks for the upload, philipp -- the more i read about the package, the more impressed i am. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

Bib – Sophisticated Bibliographies in

Bib is a complete reimplementation of the bibliographic facilities provided by . Formatting of the bibliography is entirely controlled by macros, and a working knowledge of should be sufficient to design new bibliography and citation styles. Bib uses its own data backend program called “biber” to read and process the bibliographic data. With biber, Bib has many features rivalling or surpassing other bibliography systems. To mention a few:

  • Full Unicode support
  • Highly customisable sorting using the Unicode Collation Algorithm + CLDR tailoring
  • Highly customisable bibliography labels
  • Complex macro-based on-the-fly data modification without changing your data sources
  • A tool mode for transforming bibliographic data sources
  • Multiple bibliographies and lists of bibliographic information in the same document with different sorting
  • Highly customisable data source inheritance rules
  • Polyglossia and babel suppport for automatic language switching for bibliographic entries and citations
  • Automatic bibliography data recoding (UTF-8 -> latin1, macros -> UTF-8 etc)
  • Remote data sources
  • Highly sophisticated automatic name and name list disambiguation system
  • Highly customisable data model so users can define their own bibliographic data types
  • Validation of bibliographic data against a data model
  • Subdivided and/or filtered bibligraphies, bibliographies per chapter, section etc.

Apart from the features unique to Bib, the package also incorporates core features of the following packages: babelbib, bibtopic, bibunits, chapterbib, cite, inlinebib, mcite and mciteplus, mlbib, multibib, splitbib.

The package strictly requires

Biber, babel / polyglossia, and csquotes 4.4 or later are strongly recommended.

PackageBibLaTeX
Version3.20 2024-03-22
Copyright2006–2012 Philipp Lehman
2012–2017 Philip Kime, Audrey Boruvka, Joseph Wright
2018–2024 Philip Kime, Moritz Wemheuer
MaintainerPhilip Kime
Philipp Lehman (inactive)

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