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Does anyone know what the history of that --wolfgang switch is? The bibtex8 man page just says "set really huge BibTeX capacity for Wolfgang". It sounds like it
by wolfgang42 10y ago
Does anyone know what the history of that --wolfgang switch is? The bibtex8 man page just says "set really huge BibTeX capacity for Wolfgang". It sounds like it was made for me but I assume there was some other Wolfgang for whom it was intended.
- eridius 10y agohttp://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/8-bit/ http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/8-bit/ specifically says it's for Wolfgang's PhD thesis. I still can't figure out what Wolfgang this was intended for, but it is kind of impressive that this person got a whole flag for their one document.
- wolfgang42 10y agoSo I did some more digging through the MiKTeX source code[1]. There's a couple of different Wolfgangs mentioned in comments scattered around the source, but I'm not sure which of them (if any) prompted this flag. I did find the following comment: Revision 3.6 1995/10/21 22:20:42 kempson Fixed numerous bugs, improved error reporting and added the --wolfgang option. So apparently it was a PhD from around 1995 or so. What's even more impressive is that their name got turned into a magic incantation: while looking at forum posts about this I found that a lot of people just said "always pass --wolfgang, it makes things better"! [1]: https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=wolfgang https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=wol...