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## 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  out‐
       put  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 char‐
       acters.

## 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
              read FILE as the BibTeX character set and sort definition file.  Note that options **-7**,
              **-8** and **-c** are exclusive.

### -d --debug
              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
              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/cs‐
       file.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 Nor‐
       bert Preining for Debian/GNU Linux.



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