Biblatex relies on the venerable BibTeX program only for sorting and generating a very generic bbl file without any formatting instruction. Everything else is taken care of by biblatex, which provides a powerful and flexible macro interface for authors of citation styles. With Biber it is no longer necessary to rely on BibTeX, allowing full Unicode support, no memory limitations, extensibility, etc.
Biblatex relies on the venerable BibTeX program only for sorting and generating a very generic bbl file without any formatting instruction. Everything else is taken care of by biblatex, which provides a powerful and flexible macro interface for authors of citation styles. With Biber it is no longer necessary to rely on BibTeX, allowing full Unicode support, no memory limitations, extensibility, etc.
To install biblatex-biber, run the following command in macOS terminal (Applications->Utilities->Terminal)
sudo port install biblatex-biber
To see what files were installed by biblatex-biber, run:
port contents biblatex-biber
To later upgrade biblatex-biber, run:
sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade biblatex-biber
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