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The biblatex package is a complete reimplementation of the
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bibliographic facilities provided by LaTeX in conjunction with
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BibTeX. It redesigns the way in which LaTeX interacts with
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BibTeX at a fairly fundamental level. With biblatex, BibTeX is
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only used (if it is used at all) to sort the bibliography and
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to generate labels. Instead of being implemented in BibTeX's
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style files, the formatting of the bibliography is entirely
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controlled by TeX macros. Good working knowledge in LaTeX
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should be sufficient to design new bibliography and citation
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styles -- there is no need to learn BibTeX's postfix stack
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language. Just like the bibliography styles, all citation
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commands may be freely (re)defined. In fact, users need not
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remain bound to BibTeX for use with biblatex: an alternative
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bibliography processor biblatex-biber is available. Development
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of biblatex and biblatex-biber is closely coupled; the present
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release of biblatex is designed to work with biblatex-biber
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version 0.9.3. The package needs e-TeX, and uses the author's
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etoolbox and logreq packages. For users of biblatex-biber,
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version 0.9 is required (at least; refer to the notes for the
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version of biblatex-biber that you are using). Apart from the
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features unique to biblatex, the package also incorporates core
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features of the following packages: babelbib, bibtopic,
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bibunits, chapterbib, cite, inlinebib, mcite and mciteplus,
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mlbib, multibib, splitbib. There are also some conceptual
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parallels to the natbib and amsrefs packages. The biblatex
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package supports split bibliographies, multiple bibliographies
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within one document, and separate lists of bibliographic
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shorthands. Bibliographies may be subdivided into parts (by
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chapter, by section, etc.) and/or segmented by topics (by type,
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by keyword, etc.). The package is fully localized and can
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interface with the babel package.
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