[tex-live] BibTeXU

[Joseph Wright]

On 20/06/2010 09:00, enrico.gregorio at univr.it wrote:
> I'm running TeX Live 2010/pretest on Mac OS X 10.5 (universal-darwin). When trying
>
> $ bibtexu trybibu
>
> I get the following .blg
>
> =====
> This is BibTeXu: a UTF-8 Big BibTeX version 0.99d
> Implementation:  C for Unix
> Release version: 3.71 (23 sep 2009)
>
> The 8-bit codepage and sorting file: 88591lat.csf
> The top-level auxiliary file: trybibu.aux
> The style file: plain.bst
> Reallocated glb_str_ptr (elt_size=4) to 10 items from 0.
> Reallocated global_strs (elt_size=5001) to 10 items from 0.
> Reallocated glb_str_end (elt_size=4) to 10 items from 0.
> Database file #1: allam.bib
>
> Here's how much of BibTeX's memory you used:
>   Cites:                 2 out of 750
>   Fields:               12 out of 5000
>   Hash table:        35158 out of 35307
>   Strings:             509 out of 35307
>   Free string pool:   4234 out of 65000
>   Wizard functions:   2118 out of 3000
> =====
>
> I think that bibtexu is not supposed to load .csf files. Indeed bibtexu -h doesn't show
> any command line option to choose a .csf file or to disable loading.

This has already come up: see 
http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2010-May/025973.html, etc. Getting 
more info about BibTeXU from the developers has not yet proved to be 
that easy :-)
-- 
Joseph Wright