Learn LaTeX Tutorial (3): Making Bibliographies with Biber and BibLaTeX!

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[@dxrbkn5145]

man, they should teach this at school wtf its great

[@mikaelaspsomkane95]

I just want to add that if you use style=apa and another language than english you need this command: \DeclareLanguageMapping{swedish}{swedish-apa} for swedish as an example. You got undefined control sequence without that line.

[@scarfprickles]

Thank you. Please continue this series.

[@ac130kz]

wow latex is so comfy

[@tomato6102]

it's even more comfy with macros that type all that \* stuff for you

[@coconutty030]

i was looking for a latex tutorial for my syntax paper and came across this - so happy to see a latex tutorial made by a linguist!!

[@fishing_hou5140]

You saved my life! I found so many tutorials and videos until see your instruction of "biber"ing the file and recompiling it! Thanks again!!

[@miguel__mq]

Thank you a lot for this series, I've used LaTeX for a couple of project reports now, mainly about programming, and I never really knew how to use it, i just copy&pasted commands until i got it to where i wanted it to be, this has been really helpful in that regard! Thanks once again!! Keep it up!

[@csabadunai3760]

Your video just saved me so much time. While I knew that Latex can do all this I still didn't have a clue how to proceed. Now I've Written a 15 page Article within a day and I didn't spend even a minute thinking about citations ;)

[@pietadundershtitz1982]

I've wanted to start writing my papers in LaTeX since I saw one of your previous videos, but I've postponed it forever. Thanks to those three tutorials I've started learning it for real! Please continue this series (maybe a tutorial about adding images and keeping them in the same place?) and stay dank!

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[@jacksoncamilo3624]

@Ernesto Marcos happy to help xD

[@gavinvales8928]

Luke you are bae. Whenever I tell my wordcuck friends to use LaTex, I tell them to watch you're videos, and now I become they're bae. Thank you Luke. XoX

[@alexandrebouvier7731]

Oh god thank you, I was completly stuck with my document (biber/biblatex). I don't know why they don't teach us these things at school. MS Word MS Word MS Word but LaTeX exist too.

[@dxrbkn5145]

I have been learning this past week about LaTeX and as you know it, both windows and MacOs users are also users of the program, so it gets a little bit confusing finding information focused on arch and biblatex with biber what I have learned, and I think is really useful is the following: 1.- want to have your bibliography without the need of using cites? ocite{example1} ocite{*} #this bad boy puts everything of your referente.bib on the file \printbibliography \end{document} 2.- want other styles for your bibliography? www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Biblatex_bibliography_styles 3.- want other styles for your cites? www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Biblatex_citation_styles 4.- This one goes for my spanish brothers like myself \usepackage[spanish]{babel} changes words like abstrasct and contents to "resumen" and "indice" this package has a mexican localization, its great for all the mexicans out there \usepackage[spanish, mexico]{babel} If I learn more useful or important stuff, I will put it here

[@drewberchtolzthofen886]

Man, you lessons are so damn cool. Thanks A LOT!

[@bossxero]

Thanks for this helpful video. I have watched the whole series and it helped me a lot to get started with Latex. Indeed, its real fun to work in latex and I'm already working my dissertation on it. I do have a problem. I am unable to cite in the style which I'm looking for. I have looked around and researched. there are tons of info out there, so much that it becomes very confusing. Biber, biblatex, natbib and whatever else... can easily get lost in the process. In the end, I'm still unable to cite in the style I need. I need the cite in as in this example: blabla bla bla (Smith A., 2018) Smith A. (2018) has said blabla blabla The nearest I'm getting with biblatex and natbib is: (Smith 2018) I need the first letter of the first name after the surname and a comma before the year. In brackets. Can you provide some help on this please? I thank you in advance.

[@mattsmith7193]

Love your videos Luke! Please keep making them! :D

[@kovacsgyorgy5043]

it was quite an adventure to get tlmgr to install all the crap needed to make this work. A 30+ min adventure.

[@Dusk-MTG]

OK, so if I do it from command line (or online with Overleaf) everything works fine, but if I try to make it run on MiKTeX I get: Sorry, but "MiKTeX Compiler Driver" did not succeed. Any idea why?

[@I_SEE_RED]

Bc it failed

[@ShowtimeAtWaco]

Just off topic, but what monospace font do you use?

[@abhabh6896]

6:44 is there a way to do this without involving consoles, just normal text editor.... I have already looked at others guides that are software specific...like overleaf or texmaker.... I just want a software neutral way....

[@lollekompolle]

Thanks, Luke!

[@sampson4844]

someone help, I am using texmaker and it doesn't work working on uni.bib error:I couldn't open file name `uni.aux'

[@oOflioOo]

thanks for your guidance! Could you tell us, how you maintain that huge bibfile, so that the authors appear in alphabetical order? You do it manually?

[@verylovelyindeed]

I see you have read about the tzotzil language. What do you think about the gramatical structure of the tojolabal language? do you believe it could be a manifest case of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? Thanks for such good tutorials, they have been very helpful. Long lives VIM-LaTex!

[@lukasu8525]

why does vim look so cool on your computer and/or OS?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Transparent terminal with this in my vimrc: syntax on colorscheme slate (or maybe I was using delek here??)

[@syth406]

What does it mean if using the \parencite tag gives you (ibid.) on your document? And once again I should learn how to use Google and also learn some Latin.

[@joelmaldonado1572]

Guys I have a problem, I've try to change the style but nothing happens :I

[@keiichiiownsu12]

Quick question: I currently use mendeley for to manage PDFs, however I would like to switch to an open source (and easier to manage) alternative. Are there options for the console that allow easy interfacing with LaTex?

[@aks2084]

I'm curious as to what is that "GiB" countdown in your top status bar.

[@mattsmith7193]

It's how much space he has left on his HDD. It's counting down because he's recording, and it's using a lot of space.

[@sergiodtr]

what did he do in 6:24 ?

[@geoptus]

he pre-compiled the document with biber to establish the references, before the final full compile

[@lifestain]

Great video! Isn't a bit slow to write manually every entries in your bibtex file? I'm quite fond of Jabref myself, which can create entries based on ISBN and DOI and manage pdfs. It's quite a memory hog sadly.

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Hmm interesting. Never tried it. I don't mind writing out the entries myself. I actually have macros that write out the entry syntax for me (don't think I showed that here).

[@lifestain]

I just found this, it may interest you if you would like to automate the process more, I'll have to try them myself : github.com/atisharma/searchtobibtex

[@ghost-user559]

@@LukeSmithxyz I know it’s an older video. But do you happen to have your massive LaTeX documentation shown in this video available anywhere?

[@julioramirez5497]

How can I cite three authors in biber?

[@geoptus]

author = {first author, second author, third author},

[@thedevlavender]

8:50 Chomsky? Are you a fellow linguist?

[@inevespace]

yes

[@thedevlavender]

@@inevespace I can't remember why, but I sensed that vibe somehow LOL glad to know :D

[@anwarulbashirshuaib5673]

1:06

[@updatedotexe]

i dont fucking get it im done

[@kieuquangtuan1062]

plz tell me what OS you are using and how do you compile your LaTeX (what button(s))?

[@dukes00]

That's ArchLinux on i3wm, he's using some custom macro to copmile the .tex files

[@kieuquangtuan1062]

@@dukes00 thank you, would you tell the what the custom macro is?

[@dukes00]

@@kieuquangtuan1062 i don't know, sorry

[@cfg1149]

Your Latex series truly helped in boosting my speed in writing. Thanks, Luke.

[@dxrbkn5145]

ITS BEEN SIX MONTHS SINCE I STARTED USING LATEX AND IT CHANGED MY LIFE ITS FUCKING GREAT

[@ArvindMishra2222]

Something heavy episodes are downloaded on the hardrive. From 38gb to 30gb. Nice internet speed

[@eset3649]

This is very cool indeed but I think it is waay too much for the kinda shitty work I got to do for school.

[@Nifarol]

Biber only works for me when I compile in the command line using pdflatex, not when I compile using the shortcut in vimtex. Any idea what's going wrong?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

I'm not sure but I think biber only works with the pdflatex command (not standard latex). I'm not sure about vimtex, but it might not be calling pdflatex. There might be a way to change this in vimtex (I've never used it), otherwise, you might want to use bibtex instead of biber, which is only a little different.

[@Nifarol]

Thank you! I'm just starting out on Vim and LaTeX, and since they can be overwhelming I'm really enjoying these videos.

[@linuxsport]

+1 "Please continue the series."

[@Vagelis_Prokopiou]

Awesome series. Thanx Luke.

[@qliphothn6582]

I´m having a problem with in text citation. No matter what citation style I use, I´m just getting the bib codes of the sources in my output instead of (author, year). Also, since I tried the "biber latexdocument" command, I´m now getting a Package inputenc Error in my last line. And now I can´t even compile it.

[@syth406]

Are any of you getting an error when you try to compile the *.blg document? I get an error statement. >ERROR - Cannot find control file 'Bibliography.bcf'! - did you pass the "backend=biber" option to BibLaTeX? Any ideas what this is supposed to mean? Edit: Nvm. If you receive this message, it means that you didn't reference your bibliography file correctly (meaning you typed in 'uni.bib' instead of your own file name), or you're trying to apply the biber command to your bibliography INSTEAD of the document in which you cite your bibliography entry.

[@catalinacastillo-lozano1077]

you are a genius! thank you

[@pcfreak1992]

Is there also a way to change the style or create a custom style with Biber?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Yeah, I've never done it myself, but you can check the biber documentation. They don't use .bst files though, but you individually specify parameters.

[@MaidLucy]

thank you luke

[@markleakos3737]

Thanks.

[@Usertrappedindatabase]

biber format has changed since this video was made in 2017, it will format correctly if using this format: @book{Doe2022, Author = "Doe, John", Publisher = "Earth University", Title = "Creating a bibliography with biber!", Year = "2022"

[@tienbui8813]

Thank you, Luke!