bibtex8 (1) Linux Manual Page

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 ##