texify: how to invoke bibtex8 instead of bibtex?

Question

Suppose that I need to run

bibtex8.exe -B -c cp1251.csf

or something like that in order to produce correct bibliography list; cp1251.csf comes with the gost package but it makes no difference in the context of my question since I am getting correct output when I am running bibtex8 from the command prompt of from WinEdt menu. I want for texify to run bibtex8 instead of default bibtex as well. It is possible to instruct texify (from the miktex bundle) to run bibtex8 instead of bibtex by setting the BIBTEX environment variable as follows

SET BIBTEX=bibtex8

But texify fails if I am trying to pass options to the bibtex8 execuatable. In particular, with

SET BIBTEX=bibtex8 -B -c cp1251.csf

texify aborts with the message

texify: "bibtex8 -B -c cp1251.csf" could not be found.

Is there a way to pass options to bibtex8 over texify?

Answer 1

I would try to write a batch-file which calls bibtex with the correct options and set the variable BIBTEX so that it points to this batch file.

Answer 2

I have also tried to pass options (in my case --wolfgang) to bibtex8 under texify. If this were possible, presumably it would be possible to pass options to makeindex/xindy in the same way. However, texify features the option --mkidx-option to pass options to the index generator. There is no corresponding option for bibtex. Therefore, I suspect that your request is not possible.