The biblatex manual should be installed on your system by your Tex distribution. The command >texdoc biblatex should bring it up. TexLive installs it in
/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex/biblatex.pdf If you use Debian's TEx, however, it may be in a different place---Debian's Tex used to have a different directory structure than TexLive. Similarly, the biber manual is called biber.pdf and texlive puts it in /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/doc/bibtex/biber/biber.pdf A search for either file on your system (with, e.g. >locate biber|biblatex.pdf) should tell you where they are. You can also google either file and you'll get to them quickly. Here is biber.pdf on sourceforge: http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/biblatex-biber/biblatex-biber/1.4/documentation/biber.pdf and here is biblatex.pdf on Ctan: ftp://www.ctan.org/ctan/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/doc/biblatex.pdf Cheers, Stefano -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org