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Biber is said to have many advantages for those writing in languages other than English but I have been unable to get the results I used to have with bibtex. I have Lyx 2.0.5.1, biblatex 1.7, and biber 0.9.9.

In my example the citation will show up but not the list of references. This is probably due to the fact that Biber fails to produce a .bbl output although it claims to do so. But why?

Example:

\documentclass[ngerman,headings=normal]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[style=apa,backend=biber,natbib=true,bibencoding=auto]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{ngerman}{ngerman-apa}
\addbibresource{Egg1975.bib}
\usepackage{babel}
\begin{document}
Test (\citealt{Egg1975}, 89 Fn.~1)
\printbibliography
\end{document}

.bib:

% This file was created with JabRef 2.8.1.
% Encoding: ISO8859_15
@ARTICLE{Egg1975,
  author = {Egg, Rudolf E.},
  title = {{S}ozialtherapie in {E}rlangen: {M}ethoden und erste {A}uswirkungen
    einer {V}ersuchs- und {E}rprobungsanstalt},
  journal = {Bewährungshilfe},
  year = {1975},
  volume = {22},
  pages = {87-102},
  hyphenation = {german},
  owner = {adessec},
  timestamp = {2012.12.11}
}

.blg:

[0] Config.pm:300> INFO - This is Biber 0.9.9
[0] Config.pm:303> INFO - Logfile is 'TestBiberMWE.blg'
[1] biber:145> INFO - === Do Jan 10, 2013, 13:46:34
[1] Biber.pm:271> INFO - Reading 'TestBiberMWE.bcf'
[20] Biber.pm:586> INFO - Found 1 citekeys in bib section 0
[31] Biber.pm:2585> INFO - Processing bib section 0
[50] Biber.pm:2677> INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 'Egg1975.bib' for section 0
[79] bibtex.pm:708> INFO - Found BibTeX data source '/home/adessec/texmf/bibtex/bib/Egg1975.bib'
[112] Biber.pm:2480> INFO - Sorting list 'MAIN' keys
[112] Biber.pm:2484> INFO - No sort tailoring available for locale 'de_DE.UTF-8'
[126] Biber.pm:2480> INFO - Sorting list 'SHORTHANDS' keys
[126] Biber.pm:2484> INFO - No sort tailoring available for locale 'de_DE.UTF-8'
[128] bbl.pm:427> INFO - Writing 'TestBiberMWE.bbl' with encoding 'ascii'
[128] bbl.pm:498> INFO - Output to TestBiberMWE.bbl
Axel Dessecker
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    Does bibtex run without errors on the same file? If yes, could you please reduce your code to a minimal working example (MWE) and provide also a piece of your .bib file that reproduces the error? Oh and Welcome to TeX.sx! – Benedikt Bauer Jan 09 '13 at 16:14
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  • Also, it would be useful to see the log file Biber has produced. – Joseph Wright Jan 09 '13 at 16:31
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    Your code works for me (using one of my bib files). By the way, you use an old version of biblatex and biber. Also, using the natibib option makes redundant to declare the natbib commands (\citet, \citep). You can use \citep[89 Fn.~1]{Egg1975}, and the \noindent is useless. – Guido Jan 09 '13 at 16:41
  • In some cases, Biber isn't able to start its run because of an internal error that has a rather simple fix. Please, add the contents of the .blg file you find in the working directory. – egreg Jan 09 '13 at 23:58
  • @Benedikt: bibtex runs without any errors on the file after appropriate changes. I reduced the code for a MWE. – Axel Dessecker Jan 10 '13 at 12:35
  • @Joseph and @egreg: .blg added as well as .bib. – Axel Dessecker Jan 10 '13 at 12:53
  • @AxelDessecker I've tried with a TeX distribution having Biber 0.9.9 and the resulting .bbl file exists and is not empty. – egreg Jan 10 '13 at 13:03
  • Did you run latex again after biber? Also you need to \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} because of the characters in your bib file. – Andrew Swann Jan 10 '13 at 14:23
  • @Andrew: Yes I did run latex after biber but this is rather useless as the .bbl does not exist. I thought about file encodings before but I don't think utf8 is required here. – Axel Dessecker Jan 10 '13 at 14:59
  • @egreg: My TeX distribution is texlive as provided by opensuse.org for OS 12.2. This is of course the most recent stable version. – Axel Dessecker Jan 10 '13 at 15:04
  • @AxelDessecker I needed the input encoding when I tried it on my set-up to avoid same utf8 characters not being printed. But it seems you have a more fundamental problem. Perhaps you should upgrade your system. – Andrew Swann Jan 10 '13 at 15:05
  • @Guido: The most convenient workaround for me at the moment is to stick to bibtex8. I guess upgrading biblatex and biber independently would raise to many other issues. – Axel Dessecker Jan 14 '13 at 16:21

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