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bibtex8: 8-bit Big BibTeX

Command to display bibtex8 manual in Linux: $ man 1 bibtex8

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).

AUTHORS

BibTeX8 was written by Niel Kempson <kempson [at] snowyowl.co.uk> and Alejandro Aguilar-Sierra <asierra [at] servidor.unam.mx>. This manpage was written for TeX Live, based on the work by Norbert Preining for Debian/GNU Linux.