BibLaTeX support

[Stas Verberkt]

As BibLaTeX is often regarded as the "modern" replacement for BibTeX, I was wondering if BibLaTeX support is feasible.

The two problems with BibLaTeX, when used with ModernCV, that I can see are:
  * Out of the box it uses \section*{Title} headings, which get rendered as \section{*} Title in ModernCV
  * It breaks the indentation used by the ModernCV package. When wrapping the \printbibliography command in \cvline{}{\printbibliography}, the indentation is correct. However, this results in an empty line on top of the bibliography.

[Stas Verberkt (legolas)]

Thanks for the work. I just updated my TeX Live installation and did some tests. The headings now function correctly, however, the indentation does not work yet. Wrapping in a \cvline{}{[...]} command is still not an option, as this would result in double indentation of the heading.

[Xavier Danaux (xdanaux)]

Yes, indentation is still far from fixed; I don't know (yet) how to redefine the \printbibliography routine.
Maybe some solution is possible through a custom bib style, but I haven't investigated it yet.

[Stas Verberkt (legolas)]

If it is off any help, here is a stab at a bbx file:

\ProvidesFile{moderncv.bbx}

\RequireBibliographyStyle{authortitle}

\defbibenvironment{bibliography}
  {\list
     {}
     {\setlength{\leftmargin}{6.5em}%
      \setlength{\itemindent}{0pt}%
      \setlength{\itemsep}{\bibitemsep}%
      \setlength{\parsep}{\bibparsep}}}
  {\endlist}
  {\item}

\endinput

And cbx:

\ProvidesFile{moderncv.cbx}

\RequireCitationStyle{authortitle}

\endinput

It is not really my field of programming, so it may be a bit "hacky".

[mysticx (mysticx)]

I ran into this problem today as well.
Since the indentation problem still persists, here is an ugly fast hack:

 \section{Publications} % choose your header text
 \vspace*{-2em} % get rid of additional vertical space introduced by section usage and cvline wrapping
 \cvline{}{\printbibliography[heading=none]} % wrap in cvline to use correct indentation for bib entries, but disable heading to work around incorrect indentation of header