[OS X TeX] biber runs although I specify backend=bibtex for blbilatx

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Jul 15, 2017, at 4:52 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My source has
> 
>    \RequirePackage[backend=bibtex,%
>         bibstyle=mybooknumeric,citestyle=numeric,dashed=true,defernumbers=true]%
>         {biblatex}
> 
> (The style is irrelevant for purposes of this question.)
> 
> Nonetheless, running pdflatexmk on it — from TeXShop 3.80 — somehow causes biber to run, which generates various warnings such as:
> 
>   Package biblatex Warning: Biber reported the following issues
>   (biblatex)                with ‘ABook':
>   (biblatex)                - Can't use 'location' + 'address’.
> 
>   Package biblatex Warning: Biber reported the following issues
>   (biblatex)                with ‘AnotherBook':
>   (biblatex)                - Invalid format of field 'urldate'.
> 
> I do not recall seeing this with the previous version of TeXShop (but maybe I just didn’t examine the log carefully enough).
> 
> Is this caused by a change in latexmk?
> 
> 
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Howdy,

First, please check that you don't load biblatex twice. Second, look through the Console output from your latexmk run and see of biber is actually run. Then, could you make a minimal example that demonstrates the problem and send it directly to me.

My simple example doesn't seem to have a problem.


Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)