[OS X TeX] OT: low-tech bibliographic hyperlinking

[Herbert Schulz]

On May 3, 2007, at 8:08 AM, Roussanka Loukanova wrote:

> On Thu, 3 May 2007, Simon Spiegel wrote:
>
>> Biblatex, on the other hand, is a bibtex style which is highly  
>> configurable. It basically handles all bibtex formatting over to  
>> LaTeX which means a level of flexibility and ease of use no other  
>> bibtex style has.
>
> I see that the biblatex is not in our TeX distributions (neither  
> TeXLive 2007, nor gwTeX):
>
> roussankas-computer:/usr/local rosi$ find . -name "*biblatex*" -print
> ./texlive/2007/texmf-doc/doc/english/catalogue/entries/biblatex.html
>
> And then, I copied + pasted
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc/doc/english/catalogue/entries/ 
> biblatex.html
>
> the browser's address sub-window: File > Open Location...
>
> Isn't there an easier way to get to the TeX catalogue online  
> straight from the Terminal's command line?
>
> Roussanka
>

Howdy,

Biblatex is not part of TeX Live since it's still in beta (but very  
stable). You can download a zip archive from <http://tug.ctan.org/tex- 
archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/> and put the files in correct  
locations.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)



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