[OS X TeX] TeXShop and biblatex

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Oct 12, 2022, at 8:40 PM, Jeffrey W Roland <jroland at lsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> All, 
>  
> Does anyone out there know how to make TeXShop and biblatex play nicely together?
>  
> I’m working on a grant proposal that requires bibliographic entries in footnotes and from what I’m reading using biblatex appears to be the easiest way to make this happen. (I normally use BibTeX and natbib for bibliographies.) But I haven’t been able to get even a minimal example using biblatex to compile with TeXShop. Here’s the minimal example:
>  
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \usepackage{biblatex}
> \addbibresource{mathreal.bib}
>  
> \begin{document}
>  
> Sample text  \cite{maddy97}
>  
> \printbibliography
>  
> \end{document}
>  
> Running LaTeX via TeXShop on this produces the following error:
>  
> <image001.jpg>
>  
> Ideas? 
>  
> Thanks, 
>  
> Jeff
>  
> -- 
> Jeffrey Roland, PhD
> Associate Professor
>  
> Department of Philosophy
> 102 Coates Hall
> Louisiana State University
> Baton Rouge LA  70803
>  
> (e) jroland[at]lsu.edu
> (p) 225.578.2388
> (f) 225.578.4897

Howdy,

What is producing that error message? Is it LaTeX itself or biber or ... ?

What version of TeX Live and macOS are you using? Is you TeX distribution up to date? What does the log file and the Console output look like?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
herbs2 at mac.com