Man1 - bibtex8.1
NAME
bibtex8 - 8-bit Big BibTeX
SYNOPSIS
bibtex8 [/options/] aux-file
DESCRIPTION
BibTeX8 is an 8-bit implementation of BibTeX written in C. It has been enhanced by adding the following features:
- “big” (32-bit) and customisable capacity
- flexible support for non-English languages using 8-bit character sets
BibTeX8 accepts 8-bit characters in its input files, and writes 8-bit characters to its output files. The character set is defined by an external configuration file — the Codepage and Sort order (“CS”) file. By default, it reads a specific CS file “88591lat.csf”, which defines ISO 8859-1 character set and its alphabetical sorting order including accented characters.
OPTIONS
- -? –help
- display some brief help text.
- -7 –traditional
- operate in the original 7-bit mode, no CS file used. Only 7-bit ASCII characters are supported, and they are sorted by ASCII code value.
- -8 –8bit
- force 8-bit mode, no CS file used. All 8-bit characters (code > 127) are treated as letters, and they are sorted by their code value.
- -c –csfile FILE
- read FILE as the BibTeX character set and sort definition file. Note that options -7, -8 and -c are exclusive.
- -d –debug TYPE
- report debugging information. TYPE is one or more of all, csf, io, mem, misc, search.
- -s –statistics
- report internal statistics.
- -t –trace
- report execution tracing.
- -v –version
- report BibTeX version.
- -B –big
- set large BibTeX capacity.
- -H –huge
- set huge BibTeX capacity.
- -W –wolfgang
- set really huge BibTeX capacity for Wolfgang.
- -M –min_crossrefs ##
- set min_crossrefs to ##.
- –mcites ##
- allow ## \cites in the .aux files (deprecated).
- –mentints ##
- allow ## integer entries in the .bib databases (deprecated).
- –mentstrs ##
- allow ## string entries in the .bib databases (deprecated).
- –mfields ##
- allow ## fields in the .bib databases (deprecated).
- –mpool ##
- set the string pool to ## bytes (deprecated).
- –mstrings ##
- allow ## unique strings.
- –mwizfuns ##
- allow ## wizard functions (deprecated).
SEE ALSO
More detailed description of BibTeX8 is available at $TEXMFDIST/doc/bibtex8/00readme.txt. The syntax of Codepage and Sort order (CS) File can be found at $TEXMFDIST/doc/bibtex8/csfile.txt.
AUTHORS
BibTeX8 was written by Niel Kempson <kempson@snowyowl.co.uk> and Alejandro Aguilar-Sierra <asierra@servidor.unam.mx>. This manpage was written for TeX Live, based on the work by Norbert Preining for Debian/GNU Linux.