[OS X TeX] bibtex8

[Simon Spiegel]

On 16.12.2008, at 21:29, Simon Spiegel wrote:

>
> On 16.12.2008, at 21:21, Juergen Fenn wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> G.H. Szylowsky PhD schrieb:
>>> I noticed that biblatex recommends that we use bibtex8.
>>>
>>> Do we get this automatically with TL?
>>
>> Yes. Try it in your terminal.
>>
>>> When I bibtex in TeXShop, do I use bibtex8?
>>
>> AFAICS, you can only switch between bibtex and jbibtex in the TeX  
>> Shop
>> options at "misc." options (German version)? No way to call bibtex8  
>> in
>> TeX Shop?
>
> You can create a new engine for TeXShop.
>
> Take the following snippet and paste it into a text editor (you can  
> change bibtex8's parameters, of course):
>
> #!/bin/bash
> export PATH="$PATH:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin"
> bibtex8 -W -c 88591lat.csf --mentstrs 50000 "$(basename -s .tex  
> $1).aux"
>
> Save this as bibtex8.engine and set the execution bit, then move the  
> file to ~/Library/TeXShop/Enginess.

That's ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines, with only one s.

Simon

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