HFST-TXT2FST(1)

👑 HFST-TXT2FST — the manual page, bestie edition 💅

okay so real talk: this is the hfst-txt2fst manual page, section 1 of User Commands. She's from the HFST family, she takes an AT&T or prolog format file and she turns it into a binary transducer. Glow-up complete. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

hfst-txt2fst — =Convert AT&T or prolog format into a binary transducer

(no fr, that stray = at the start of the description is literally in the original, I'm not touching it, she's iconic as she is 🫶)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

hfst-txt2fst [OPTIONS...] [INFILE]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Convert AT&T or prolog format into a binary transducer. That's the whole job. She does one thing and she ate. 👑

🎀 Common options:

• -h, --help — Print help message
• -V, --version — Print version info
• -v, --verbose — Print verbosely while processing (she will narrate, and honestly? let her)
• -q, --quiet — Only print fatal erros and requested output
• -s, --silent — Alias of --quiet

🦋 Input/Output options:

• -i, --input=INFILE — Read input transducer from INFILE
• -o, --output=OUTFILE — Write output transducer to OUTFILE

🌈 Text and format options:

• -f, --format=FMT — Write result using FMT as backend format
• -e, --epsilon=EPS — Interpret string EPS as epsilon in att format
• -p, --prolog — Read prolog format instead of att
• -j, --disjunct — Disjunct multiple transducers in input

🧚 Other options:

• -C, --check-negative-epsilon-cycles — Issue a warning if there are epsilon cycles with a negative weight in the transducer

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⚠️ okay the fine print, and this part is important so pay attention bestie:

If OUTFILE or INFILE is missing or -, standard streams will be used. If FMT is not given, OpenFst's tropical format will be used. The possible values for FMT are { foma, openfst-tropical, openfst-log, sfst, optimized-lookup-weighted, optimized-lookup-unweighted }. If EPS is not given, @0@ will be used.

Space in transition symbols must be escaped as '@_SPACE_@' when using att format. no cap, the space will simply not behave otherwise 🙈

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😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Report bugs to <hfst-bugs@helsinki.fi> or directly to our bug tracker at: <https://github.com/hfst/hfst/issues>

• hfst-txt2fst home page: <https://github.com/hfst/hfst/wiki/HfstTxt2Fst>
• General help using HFST software: <https://github.com/hfst/hfst/wiki>

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright © 2017 University of Helsinki, License GPLv3: GNU GPL version 3 <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one's HFST, dated August 2018, and it lives at HFST-TXT2FST(1). go forth and convert, you absolute main character 🎀✨