LOU_DEBUG(1)

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version 3.39.0 · 14 versions
, in arch rolling

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, this is LOU_DEBUG(1) — the manual page for lou_debug, aka a debugger for liblouis Braille translation tables ✨ lowkey iconic.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

lou_debug [OPTIONS] TABLE[,TABLE,...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so basically, lou_debug lets you examine and debug Braille translation tables. fr fr, this program lets you inspect liblouis translation tables and gather info about them — things like forward and backward rules, characters and dot patterns, specific opcodes, the size of a table, whether a hyphenation table is used, how many passes the translation takes, and much more. it’s giving “investigate every little detail” energy 💅

  • -h, --help — display this help and exit
  • -v, --version — display version information and exit

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Written by John J. Boyer. 👑

🫶 REPORTING BUGS 🫶

Report bugs to liblouis-liblouisxml@freelists.org.

Liblouis home page: http://www.liblouis.io

Copyright © 2024 ViewPlus Technologies, Inc. and JJB Software, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<https://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.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The full documentation for lou_debug is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and lou_debug programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info liblouis

should give you access to the complete manual. periodt 💫

cute little sign-off: this absolute queen of a page is from Liblouis 3.39.0, dated September 2026 🩷✨

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