On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann < engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> On Saturday 11 January 2014 11:25:43 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > > > I wonder whether my and Kim's difficulties with biber has to do with the > versions of biber and biblatex. > > According to the biber handbook (Kime, UK) the latest are > > Biber version 1.8 > > Biblatex version 2.8 > > If I check via synaptic (debian) > > I have 0.9.9+release-1 for Biber > > and 1.7-1 for biblatex. > > > Thos are very old version. I would not recommend using biblatex <2 > Since I have installed texlive 2013 > > I searched for biber and found it to be in > > /usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86-64-linux/ > > /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/bibtex/ > > /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/source/bibtex/ > > > > > and biblatex in > > /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ > > /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/csf/ > > /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/ > > /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ > > /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/biblatex/ > > > > Two questions: > > > > How can I find out the version of these? > for biber type biber --version at a prompt for biblatex, the easier way is to look at the latex log. Whn biblatex is loaded (at the beginning of the log) it will tell you the version How can I find out, that they are used by lyx > If you have multiple versions of biber, it may get complicated. It all depends on your PATH variable, but there are additional complications if you start lyx from the GUI. If you start lyx from the command line (recommended), then lyx will find the biber program whose version you saw with "biber --version" and which is located in the output of "which biber". If you start it from the GUI (double-clicking on a lyx file, using the F2 shortcut in Kde, etcetera), it all depends on how you set up KDE. I never got the hang of it, to be frank, so I always start it from the command line. Cheers, Stefano -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
