$Id: README,v 0.7 2007/12/09 14:52:00 lehman beta $

Please be advised that this package is in beta stage and released
for testing only. TeX distributors are advised to wait for version
1.0. The version number will be stepped up to 1.0 as soon as it is
considered suitable for general distribution.

See the file `RELEASE' for additional release notes.

ABOUT

The biblatex package is a complete reimplementation of the
bibliographic facilities provided by LaTeX in conjunction with
BibTeX. It redesigns the way in which LaTeX interacts with BibTeX at
a fairly fundamental level. With biblatex, BibTeX is only used to
sort the bibliography and to generate labels. Instead of being
implemented in BibTeX's style files, the formatting of the
bibliography is entirely controlled by TeX macros. Good working
knowledge in LaTeX should be sufficient to design new bibliography
and citation styles. There is no need to learn BibTeX's postfix stack
language. Just like the bibliography styles, all citation commands
may be freely (re)defined.

Apart from the features unique to biblatex, the package also
incorporates core features of the following packages: babelbib,
backref, bibtopic, bibunits, chapterbib, cite, citeref, inlinebib,
mlbib, multibib, natbib, splitbib. There are also some conceptual
parallels to the amsrefs package. The biblatex package supports
split bibliographies, multiple bibliographies within one document,
and separate lists of bibliographic shorthands. Bibliographies may
be subdivided into parts (by chapter, by section, etc.) and/or
segmented by topics (by type, by keyword, etc.). The package is
fully localized and can interface with the babel package.

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2006--2007 Philipp Lehman. This package is
author-maintained. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or
modify this software under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public
License (LPPL), version 1.3. This software is provided `as is',
without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including,
but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and
fitness for a particular purpose.

INSTALLATION

Copy all files found in the `latex' subdirectory to

	<TEXMFLOCAL>/tex/latex/biblatex/

and the file in the `bibtex' subdirectory to

	<TEXMFLOCAL>/bibtex/bst/

where <TEXMFLOCAL> denotes the root of the local TeX installation
tree, for example

	/usr/local/share/texmf/
or
	c:\localtexmf\

Note that you may have to create those directories if this is the
first package you're installing locally (as opposed to via a package
manager). Don't forget to update the file hash tables after
installing the files. Please see the following TeX FAQ answers for
further details:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instpackages
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=wherefiles
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tds

The manual and the example files in the `doc' subdirectory may be
copied to the `doc' subdirectory of the local TeX installation tree
or to any other place where you will find them later.

USAGE

Refer to biblatex.pdf for a systematic reference manual and to the
`examples' subdirectory for usage examples.

CHANGES

A list of changes relevant to users of this package is included at
the end of `biblatex.pdf'. See also the release notes in `RELEASE'.
