BIBTEX8(1) User Commands 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 ex-
ternal 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).
8BIT LATIN LETTERS SUPPORT
BibTeX8 supports extended features to handle 8bit latin letters. Sev-
eral built-in functions in bibliography styles are enhanced as follows.
& Pops the top two (integer) literals and pushes their bitwise AND.
| Pops the top two (integer) literals and pushes their bitwise OR.
chr.to.int$, int.to.chr$
The function is the same as original BibTeX but 8bit characters
are accepted.
width$ The function is the same as original BibTeX but letters of
Latin-1 are supported.
SEE ALSO
More detailed description of BibTeX8 is available at $TEXMFDIST/doc/bib-
tex8/00readme.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 and Alejandro Aguilar-Sierra. It is
currently maintained as part of TeX Live.
This manpage was written for TeX Live, based on the work by Norbert
Preining for Debian GNU/Linux.
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