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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2011-03-06 22:31:53 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2011-03-06 22:31:53 +0000 |
commit | 0e6e50ca2549504070b29679d6159236bdf1b308 (patch) | |
tree | 0171343229c3531b47eefd984597c35b86922078 /Master/texmf-dist/source/bibtex/biber/README | |
parent | 876cc70b39dad10fa8b3e5d2d600e0bad3c48f8d (diff) |
adding biber, including binaries in both Master/bin and Build
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/source/bibtex/biber/README b/Master/texmf-dist/source/bibtex/biber/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ab8c4ba091d --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/source/bibtex/biber/README @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ + +Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, with full Unicode +support. + +REQUIREMENTS + + These requirements only apply if you are installing the perl version. + We also provide PAR::Packer generated binaries for most common OSes. + + Biber is written in Perl. Version 5.12 is recommended if you are running + the perl source version as it has the best Unicode implementation of any + Perl version so far. + + In addition Biber requires a number of CPAN modules, which if missing + should be automatically installed during the install process described + below. + + * Unicode::Collate 0.72 or higher + * IPC::Cmd and IPC::Run + * File::Slurp::Unicode + * Readonly (but Readonly::XS is highly recommended for performance reasons) + * List::AllUtils + * Log::Log4perl + * XML::LibXML::Simple (XML::LibXML clone of XML::Simple) + * Text::BibTeX 0.5.1 or higher (requires Config::AutoConf when + installing - please install this first.) + * LWP::Simple + +INSTALLATION + + Binaries are available for most common architectures but if you wish + to install the perl source version, run the following commands: + + perl Build.PL + ./Build + ./Build test [optional but recommended] + ./Build install + +SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION + + After installing, biber --help will give you the basic documentation. + The latest PDF documentation can be found here: + + https://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber/current/documentation/ + + Biber also comes with the utility script latex2utf8 to convert files with + LaTeX encoding to UTF-8. + + You can also find documentation for the included modules with the perldoc command: + + perldoc Biber + perldoc LaTeX::Decode + etc. + + More information, bugfix releases, forums and bug tracker are available at: + + http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net + +BUGS + + Please report any bugs or feature requests on our sourceforge tracker at + https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=browse&group_id=228270 + + +========================== + +COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE + + Copyright (C) 2009–2011 François Charette and Philip Kime + + This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or + modify it under the terms of either: + + * the GNU General Public License as published by the Free + Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any + later version, or + + * the Artistic License version 2.0. + +========================== |