According to the man page for latexmk there is a command line option -latexoption=<option> for passing options to pdflatex, but there seems to be no similar way to pass options to biber.
Is there a way to pass options such as --validate-datamodel or --isbn-normalise to biber while using latexmk?
In ~/.latexmkrc, add $biber='biber --validate-datamodel %O %S' (or whatever options you like)
; at the end of each command is needed, at least if there is more than one in .latexmkrc file.
– Júda Ronén
May 26 '21 at 16:32
I ran into an issue where I'm running latexmk from a build script and do not want the user to have to modify their ~/.latexmkrc file. For this, the options can be provided on the command line without changing the user's environment:
latexmk -e '$biber='"'"'biber --isbn-normalise %O %S'"'" [your_tex_file]
~/.latexmkrc, add$biber='biber --validate-datamodel %O %S'(or whatever options you like). – Derek Sep 26 '16 at 23:09