[OS X TeX] biber

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Aug 17, 2023, at 9:48 AM, George Gratzer via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> I would like to use BibLaTeX. So Ineed the biber engine. I looked for it under TeXShop Settings>Engine,
> and it is not there. 
> 
> What can I do?
> 
> GG

Howdy,

If you are using one of the latexmk engines, (pdf/xe/lua)latexmk, it will be handled automatically!

If you want to use biber rather than bibtex all the time you can change the BibTeX engine under the Engine tab of TeXShop->Settings… . Then using the Typeset->BibTeX (Shift-Cmd-B) menu command will use biber instead of bibtex.

If you just want to set it for individual documents use the

% !BIB program = biber

TeXShop directive (magic comment) near the top of the file.  Then using the Typeset->BibTeX (Shift-Cmd-B) menu command will use biber instead of bibtex for that document.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
herbs2 at mac.com