rmligs

Langue: en

Version: November 2002 (openSuse - 09/10/07)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

rmligs - remove incorrectly used ligatures from German LaTeX documents

SYNOPSIS

rmligs [options] FILE(s) ...

DESCRIPTION

rmligs is a program for removing incorrectly used ligatures from LaTeX documents. This version is intended for German language texts only. Words like `Auflage' e.g. will be changed to `Auf"|lage' which is typographically correct.

The wordlist data is based on the igerman98 dictionary.

The input data may be ISO-8859-1/15 or UTF-8 encoded text. Also the German LaTeX like encoding of umlauts ("a, "u etc.) is treated correctly.

OPTIONS

--filter, -f
filter mode. This is useful for streaming.
--test, -t
test mode. This just shows what would be changed but nothing will be written (read-only). This does not make sense in filter mode.
--interactive, -i
prompt before applying changes
--quiet, -q
quiet operation

SEE ALSO

The German language README file from the documentation of this program,

Duden (the German's orthography bible),

nice and mostly older hand-set books

BUGS

There is no sanity checking of LaTeX files; rmligs will happily correct words in all files - even binaries! For safety reasons there is always a .bak file created.

checking latin1 text in UTF-8 locales might throw out some error messages about malformed UTF-8 but that does not matter - the file is processed correctly.

AUTHOR

Björn Jacke

Send mail to bjoern [at] j3e.de for bug reports and suggestions.