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

[Murray Eisenberg]

I zapped all auxiliary files, including generated bibliography files, and compiled the ocument again. Now the biker warnings have disappeared entirely.

I’m mystified.

> On Jul 15, 2017, at 6:29 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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'.
>> 
>> 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Looking at the full Console output you enclosed before (better to attache a file with it if needed) it appears the latexmk ran bibtex as requested. I wonder if you used backend=biber at one times and didn't clean out the special files that biblatex creates for its use so biblatex (that is where the report is coming from) is getting ab it confused.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> 
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