Package biblatex-biber: Information

The biblatex package by Philipp Lehman is likely to become the definitive
citation management tool for LaTeX users. Biblatex relies on the venerable
BibTeX program only for sorting and generating a very generic bbl file without
any formatting instruction. Everything else is taken care of by biblatex, which
provides a powerful and flexible macro interface for authors of citation
styles.

With Biber it is no longer necessary to rely on BibTeX. For maximal
portability, the current version includes a Pure Perl BibTeX parser with a
Parse::RecDescent grammar, but if available it will use the much faster
Text::BibTeX module which relies on the btparse C library. The objective of the
first development phase is to have a robust and reliable emulation of the
BibTeX processor with the biblatex.bst style file. In other words, given the
same .aux file as input, biber should output a functionally identical .bbl file
as BibTeX.

Package biblatex-biber: Information

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