Tex4ebook and bibliographies

Question

What is the preferred way of using bibliographies with Tex4ebook? I have tried using bibtex and biblatex but cannot get the bibliography to show on the epub.

I tried the method in In which order execute htlatex and bibtex?, but it doesn't produce any references?

I'm using the latest Miktex if that's relevant.

Thank you.

@Michal.21

The log file is at https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuihY7Zd3CrNdgot943134AzNDc

Thank you.

Update 2:

Miktex has an old file: biblatex.4ht (2015-02-04-14:23).

I replaced it with your version and now the sequence make4ht - biber - make4ht gives a proper html file with hyperlinks for the reference. A single make4ht gives the reference without the links. Tex4ebook still doesn't work.

Thank you.

Answer 1

You can use the make4ht build file to call biber or bibtex directly in the tex4ebook run. Save the following file as mybuild.mk4:

Make:add("biber","biber ${input}")
Make:htlatex {}
Make:biber {}
Make:htlatex {}

You can select the build file using -e option (alternatively, you can name it as your TeX file, but with .mk4 extension)

tex4ebook -e mybuild.mk4 filename.tex

The following sample file

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[czech]{babel}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{xampl.bib}
\title{Základní dokument v češtině}
\author{Michal Hoftich}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\section{Úvod}
Příliš žluťoučký kůň \textit{úpěl} \textbf{ďábelské ódy} \parencite{article-full}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

Is displayed in this way:

Answer 2

Save the following as mybuild.mk4 and run with tex4ebook -e mybuild.mk4 filename.tex, notice the extra htlatex to complete the cycle. It worked for me.

Make:add("biber","biber ${input}")
Make:htlatex {}
Make:biber {}
Make:htlatex {}
Make:htlatex {}