<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Aha! <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[~] locate biblatex.sty<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">/opt/local/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/lwarp/lwarp-biblatex.sty</div><div class="">/opt/local/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/udesoftec/udesoftec-biblatex.sty</div><div class="">/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/biblatex.sty</div><div class="">/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex-software/software-biblatex.sty</div><div class="">/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lwarp/lwarp-biblatex.sty</div><div class="">/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/udesoftec/udesoftec-biblatex.sty</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So perhaps I need to adjust my $PATH. Questions, then:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(1) Is that shell variable $PATH read when latex processes a .tex file by means of the TeXShop typesetting command?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(2) If so, what would I put first on the $PATH: just /usr/local/texlive/2020 ?</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 18 Feb2021, at 4:43 PM, G. M.-S. <<a href="mailto:lists.gms@gmail.com" class="">lists.gms@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="">Hello.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Perhaps you can open Terminal and look at the output of</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">locate biblatex.sty</span></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">to see if there are other files with the same name somewhere.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(If the database does not yet exist, this command will tell you how to create it.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">HTH,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Guillermo</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 22:34, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="">I just used TLU to reinstall biblatex. But still the same error! From the log:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">Package biblatex Info: Trying to load language 'english' -> 'mylanguagestrings'</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">...</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">Package biblatex Info: ... file 'mylanguagestrings.lbx' found.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:14px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">(/Users/murray/Library/texmf/tex/latex/biblatex/lbx/mylanguagestrings.lbx</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">File: mylanguagestrings.lbx </div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">Package biblatex Info: Trying to load language 'english'...</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">Package biblatex Info: ... file 'english.lbx' found.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:14px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/lbx/english.lbx</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">File: english.lbx 2020/08/23 v3.15a biblatex localization (PK/MW)</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">)</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">Package biblatex Info: Trying to load language 'english'...</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">Package biblatex Info: ... file 'english.lbx' found.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:14px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/lbx/english.lbx</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">File: english.lbx 2020/08/23 v3.15a biblatex localization (PK/MW)</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:14px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:14px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/lbx/english.lbx:571: Pack</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">age xkeyval Error: `langbasque' undefined in families `blx@lbx’.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 18 Feb2021, at 3:35 PM, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" target="_blank" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 18, 2021, at 1:44 PM, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">On 18 Feb2021, at 1:24 PM, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" target="_blank" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 18, 2021, at 11:37 AM, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/lbx/english.lbx:571: Pack<br class="">age xkeyval Error: `langbasque' undefined in families `blx@lbx'.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Howdy,<br class=""><br class="">Hmmm... in /usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/lbx/english.lbx I see a definition of langbasque on line 473; line 571 is the end of that structure list. Are you up to date?<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">And in /Library/texmf/tex/latex/biblatex/lbx I have the referenced file mylanguagestrings.lbx which includes the following:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">From the information given I assume there is a missing ~ in front of /Library/texmf/tex/latex/biblatex/lbx.<br class=""><br class="">Sorry I can't be more helpful.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">According to answer <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/583988/13492" target="_blank" class="">https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/583988/13492</a>, the issue is my biblatex installation not being up to date. But:<br class=""><br class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>- I have run the TexLive Utility to keep everything up to date;<br class=""><br class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>- kpsewhich biblatex.sty leads me to the file version 3.16 dated 2020/12/31, yet …<br class=""><br class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>- in the log (from a file listing) I see: biblatex.sty 2020/08/23 v3.15a programmable bibliographies (PK/MW)<br class=""><br class="">So I don’t know what to do to force use of biblatex 3.16.<br class=""><br class="">Yes, I unintentionally elided the ~ in the path to my mylanguagestrings.lbx .<br class=""><br class="">---<br class="">Murray Eisenberg<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span><a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a><br class="">503 King Farm Blvd #101<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span><br class="">Rockville, MD 20850-6667<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>Mobile (413)-427-5334<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Howdy,<br class=""><br class="">I believe that the log file gives the full path to biblatex.sty at the point where it's being loaded; e.g., for a sample file I see<br class=""><br class="">...<br class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/biblatex.sty<br class="">Package: biblatex 2020/12/31 v3.16 programmable bibliographies (PK/MW)<br class="">...<br class=""><br class="">Are you sure you're using TeX Live 2020?<br class=""><br class="">You could use TLU to force a re-install of biblatex if really needed.<br class=""><br class="">Good Luck,<br class=""><br class="">Herb Schulz<br class=""><a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" target="_blank" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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