Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
It's not so bad... I used to be in comp sci years ago, but I've been out of the loop, and back in the day I used a Honeywell system so never learned Unix. But it's coming! Thanks for all the suggestions. As for Windows--not so much bad habits maybe, more 'no habits' because everything was just

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Nov 12, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: > Thanks, Herb. I'll probably do that when I'm back at the office on Monday. I > was doing individual ones because I'm at home in the country at the moment. I > didn't realize after downloading TL2010 at the office that I'd be needing >

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:10:07PM -0500, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: > Thanks, Herb. I'll probably do that when I'm back at the office on Monday. I > was doing individual ones because I'm at home in the country at the moment. I > didn't realize after downloading TL2010 at the office that I'd be

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Thanks, Herb. I'll probably do that when I'm back at the office on Monday. I was doing individual ones because I'm at home in the country at the moment. I didn't realize after downloading TL2010 at the office that I'd be needing other things. When TL2010 was first announced, I was monitoring me

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Nov 12, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: > Ok, what I did was download MacTeX2010... Then I used the TeXLive utility to > upgrade modules as it became evident that they were either missing or > (already) out of date. > > If there's a better way to do this, I'll be happy to use

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
No worries, Herb, I took it as recommendation in any case :) K >>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:11 PM, in message , Herbert Schulz wrote: > On Nov 12, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > >> >> >> Dominik Wujastyk wrote: >> >>> There's an issue here, Phil, about where

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Ok, what I did was download MacTeX2010... Then I used the TeXLive utility to upgrade modules as it became evident that they were either missing or (already) out of date. If there's a better way to do this, I'll be happy to use it. (Depending upon where I am, upgrade all is/isn't an option; but

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
That's what I did :) K >>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:01 AM, in message <837b144b-0170-47db-89b0-a344ffb85...@wideopenwest.com>, Herbert Schulz wrote: > On Nov 12, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> As it happens, once I figured out how to get Biber running (more

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
The "TeXlive team" in this case is Norbert Preining, and it's a lot for him to get out a whole Linux ppa TeXlive distribution, let alone keep it updated. D On 12 November 2010 17:38, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) < p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > Hmm, maybe the TeX Live team need to be more p

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Nov 12, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > > > Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > >> There's an issue here, Phil, about where and how Karljurgen got his >> distribution. If he got it through the Ubuntu aptitude system, or >> similar, then he'll have got the original first

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Dominik Wujastyk wrote: There's an issue here, Phil, about where and how Karljurgen got his distribution. If he got it through the Ubuntu aptitude system, or similar, then he'll have got the original first release of TL2010, without any of the updates that have been issued since its first rel

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
There's an issue here, Phil, about where and how Karljurgen got his distribution. If he got it through the Ubuntu aptitude system, or similar, then he'll have got the original first release of TL2010, without any of the updates that have been issued since its first release. The Ubuntu built-in di

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Howdy, There have been many updates since TL2010 was frozen. Learn to use tlmgr to update TL on your system. Herb, is "learn to use TLMGR" not a little harsh ? The gentleman concerned downloaded TL2010 only yesterday afternoon; he almost certainly believes that it is therefore about as up

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Nov 12, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: > Hello, > > As it happens, once I figured out how to get Biber running (more or less; not > much documentation and what there is is pretty obscure for a newcomer and I'm > still not sure I'm totally clear on it), it told me that I neede

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hello, As it happens, once I figured out how to get Biber running (more or less; not much documentation and what there is is pretty obscure for a newcomer and I'm still not sure I'm totally clear on it), it told me that I needed version 9e of Biblatex; it turns out that the TL2010 version (whic

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hello Gildas, I had tried that and it didn't work; I seem to recall that according to the manual that forces Bibtex8. However, some updates got past the problem. (See next message.) Thanks! K >>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:57 PM, in message <20101112045743.ga...@gildasmini.local>, Gildas Hame

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:00:12 -0500 schrieb Karljurgen Feuerherm: > Hello all, > I seem to be running into a bit of a contradictory situation. > I read that in XeTeX I need \usepackage[bibencoding=inputenc]{biblatex}. > However, this causes the compiler to complain that I haven't > loaded input

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-11 Thread Gildas Hamel
* Karljurgen Feuerherm (kfeuerh...@wlu.ca) wrote: |> I wish to use Biblatex, and the bib file must be Unicode to accommodate all the characters that will appear there. I understand that I have to use Biber as a backend to have a Unicode bib file, and on p40 of the Biblatex manual, I read t

[XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-11 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hello all, I seem to be running into a bit of a contradictory situation. I wish to use Biblatex, and the bib file must be Unicode to accommodate all the characters that will appear there. I understand that I have to use Biber as a backend to have a Unicode bib file, and on p40 of the Biblatex m