[OS X TeX] biber and bibtex8 engines

[Alex Hamann]

On 14.09.2010, at 03:15, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> 
> On Sep 13, 2010, at 6:28 AM, Alex Hamann wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 13.09.2010, at 13:10, Simon Spiegel wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 13.09.2010, at 12:57, Alex Hamann wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I just updated to new MacTeX2010. All great but one thing bothers me on my system. I can't get biblatex 0.9d to work with new biber 0.5.5 and not even with bibtex8.
>>>> Since it is only a problem if I use my TeXShop engines (Terminal works) it must be a mistake in my engine syntax. 
>>>> This is what I've got (and what used to work until a few weeks ago):
>>>> 
>>>> for biber:
>>>> 	#!/bin/bash
>>>> 	
>>>> 	export PATH="$PATH:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin"
>>>> 	biber "$(basename -s .tex $1)"
>>> 
>>> I can't tell you why your solution doesn't work (a description of the actual error would be helpful), but this is my biber engine which still works with the latest versions of biblatex and biber:
>>> 
>>> #!/bin/tcsh
>>> 
>>> set path= ($path /usr/texbin /usr/local/bin /opt/local/bin/)
>>> biber "${1:r}"
>>> 
>>> Simon
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Simon Spiegel
>>> Steinhaldenstr. 50
>>> 8002 Zürich
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Simon,
>> 
>> thx for the code. I looked into the problem a little bit more and it seems that when I execute the engines (yours, mine) not biber is evoked but xelatex runs again. 
>> Here's what my engines folder looks like in Terminal.app
>> 
>> alexMBP:Engines alex$ 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
>> 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> If you have the line
> 
> % !TEX TS-program = xelatex
> 
> as your first line I believe TeXShop will automatically run that engine.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> 

Hi Herb,

that was indeed the issue. Simon was right in assuming the same line as source of my problem. I had forgotten that bibtex is treated specially by TeXShop and expected biber and bibtex8 to work just the same.

Cheers,

Alex