tufte-book style and biblatex

[Clark, Adrian F]

Hello everyone,

I'm experiencing some problems with the tufte-book style and biblatex, both as distributed on TeXlive 2013 (though I know the problem is somewhat older) and on TeXlive fully updated this morning. Here's a minimal example:

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\documentclass{tufte-book}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{refs.bib}

\title{An Example Document}
\author{Adrian F. Clark}
\publisher{University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK}
\begin{document}
\maketitle

\chapter{Introduction}
Here's a citation: \autocite{Raven:LBT}.

\printbibliography
\end{document}
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When I run it through pdfLaTeX (from the command line on a Mac, if that should matter), I get:

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! LaTeX Error: Command \bibhang already defined.
Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...

l.421 \newlength{\bibhang}
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Before I start digging, I wonder if anyone has fixed this and would care to share the solution?

Many thanks in advance.

..Adrian
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[Herbert Voss]

Post by Clark, Adrian F
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\documentclass{tufte-book}

tufte-book loads package natbib

Post by Clark, Adrian F
\usepackage{biblatex}

which biblatex dosn't like ...

You have to fool tufte-book that natbib is loaded and also
biblatex that natbib is _not_ loaded:


\makeatletter
\@namedef{***@natbib.sty}{9999/12/31}% declare natbib as loaded
\makeatother
\documentclass{tufte-book}
\makeatletter
\expandafter\let\csname ***@natbib.sty\endcsname\relax% reverse
\makeatother

\usepackage{biblatex}

Post by Clark, Adrian F
\addbibresource{refs.bib}
\title{An Example Document}
\author{Adrian F. Clark}
\publisher{University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\chapter{Introduction}
Here's a citation: \autocite{Raven:LBT}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Herbert

[Kevin Godby]

Hello, Adrian.

Post by Clark, Adrian F
Hello everyone,
I'm experiencing some problems with the tufte-book style and biblatex, both as distributed on TeXlive 2013 (though I know the problem is somewhat older) and on TeXlive fully updated this morning.

Try the following:

%-----
\documentclass[nobib]{tufte-book}% nobib prevents tufte-book from loading natbib
\usepackage[style=numeric]{biblatex}% use style=numeric
% redefine the \cite command to put citations in the sidenotes
\renewcommand{\cite}[2][0pt]{%
\sidenote[][#1]{\fullcite{#2}}%
}
\addbibresource{refs.bib}

\title{An Example Document}
\author{Adrian F. Clark}
\publisher{University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK}
\begin{document}
\maketitle

\chapter{Introduction}
Here's a citation: \autocite{Raven:LBT}.

\printbibliography
\end{document}
%-----

Please let me know if that works for you or if you continue to have problems.

Thanks!

—Kevin Godby