[OS X TeX] biber and bibtex8 engines

[Simon Spiegel]

On 13.09.2010, at 13:28, Alex Hamann wrote:

>> 
>> I can't tell you why your solution doesn't work (a description of the actual error would be helpful), but this is my biber engine which still works with the latest versions of biblatex and biber:
>> 
>> #!/bin/tcsh
>> 
>> set path= ($path /usr/texbin /usr/local/bin /opt/local/bin/)
>> biber "${1:r}"
>> 
> 
> thx for the code. I looked into the problem a little bit more and it seems that when I execute the engines (yours, mine) not biber is evoked but xelatex runs again. 
> Here's what my engines folder looks like in Terminal.app
> 
> alexMBP:Engines alex$ ls -l
> total 112
> -rwxr-xr-x@  1 alex  staff  108 13 Jan  2009 BibTeX8.engine
> -rwxr-xr-x@  1 alex  staff  188 13 Jan  2009 BibTopic.engine
> drwxr-xr-x  19 alex  staff  646  9 Sep 12:19 Inactive
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alex  staff  100  4 Jun 06:38 LuaLaTeX.engine
> -rwxr-xr-x@  1 alex  staff   83 13 Jan  2009 XeLaTeX.engine
> -rwxr-xr-x@  1 alex  staff   72 13 Jan  2009 XeLaTeX_ohne_SyncTeX.engine
> -rwxr-xr-x@  1 alex  staff   91 19 Aug 15:42 biber.engine
> -rwxr-xr-x@  1 alex  staff   88 13 Sep 13:13 bibercopy.engine
> -rwxr-xr-x@  1 alex  staff  405 26 Feb  2010 dvipdfmxmk.engine
> -rwxr-xr-x@  1 alex  staff  401 26 Feb  2010 latexmk.engine
> -rwxr-xr-x@  1 alex  staff  402 26 Feb  2010 pdflatexmk.engine
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alex  staff  502 16 Mär  2009 texcount.engine
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 alex  staff  495 16 Mär  2009 texcountfull.engine
> -rwxr-xr-x@  1 alex  staff  401 26 Feb  2010 xelatexmk.engine
> -rwxr-xr-x@  1 alex  staff  227 13 Jan  2009 xelatexmk8.engine
> 

Have you something like this at the beginning of your document: %!TEX TS-program = xelatex

This line tells TeXShop to use the xelatex engine for this particular document and it will completely ignore the engine you choose in the GUI (I actually posted about this some time ago, since I think it doesn't make sense that this kind of per document setting takes precedence over an engine like bibtex or biber. Richard Koch answered that he will add the possibility for engines to ignore this kind of setup. But so far, this hasn't been implemented yet).

If that's not the solution, I don't know …

Simon
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