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
       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).


8BIT LATIN LETTERS SUPPORT
       BibTeX8 supports extended features to handle 8bit latin letters.
       Several 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/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 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.

bibtex8 4.00                   12 September 2022                    BIBTEX8(1)