---
title: Latex Endeavors
subtitle: Some unintuitive quirks of Latex
author: Never
date: 9.1.2026
summary: Latex undoubtedly has some quirks. Some of them have a rather unintuitive solution.
    In this article I cover some quirks and solutions I have encountered.
---

# BibLaTeX and Biber
## Biber doesn't run
Biber doens't run if the (fedora) package `libxcrypt-compat` is missing.
It will fail with the error message
```
biber: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
```