What is your recommended workflow for Tectonic and bibliography?

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#1

So I ran into these issues:

Which suggest that bibliography handling is not totally integrated into Tectonic. So I was wondering, whether anyone here has written a large document with Tectonic and bibliography, and can share their workflow?

I don’t even know how to use biber - it seems that all guides on the Internet assume one uses XeLaTeX and that biber is invoked internally by XeLaTeX?

#2

Hm, somehow I missed this topic. Anyway, for the record: at the moment I think you still need to run biber manually. So you run

tectonic --keep-intermediates --reruns 0 main.tex
biber main
tectonic main.tex

No, XeLaTeX will not run biber for you.

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#3

Thanks for the reply! I took the example from here, and I ran tectonic first without running biber, and what’s a bit peculiar is that I didn’t get the undefined citations warnings such as:

LaTeX Warning: Citation 'wikibook' on page 1 undefined on input line 5.
LaTeX Warning: Citation 'wombat2016' on page 1 undefined on input line 7.
LaTeX Warning: Citation 'lion2010' on page 1 undefined on input line 9.

As explained by that Wiki article. I didn’t see the citations properly in the compiled pdf by tectonic, but I did see them after I ran biber on the tex file, as expected. Is it intentional? I noticed I do see it if I use on --print.

#4

Yeah I think tectonic hides some messages by default

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