Richard Heck wrote: > > 14. In the document settings one can set different bibliography > > generators. What are the differences between biber, bibtex and bibtex8? > > bibtex8 allows 8-bit characters; biber (which is written in Perl) allows > full Unicode. bibtex itself will sometimes tolerate both but officially > supports only ASCII.
And bibtex is very limited in terms of memory (static memory allocation). With complex packages such as biblatex, you can easily reach bibtex's limits. Bibtex8 is a bit better, because you can increase the memory via command switches, but biber has no limits at all. Biber also has many other features which neither bibtex nor bibtex8 have (and which biblatex uses). But it only works with biblatex, not with other bibtex styles or packages. Jürgen
