MALAGA(1)

📦 version 7.12, in debian bookworm, fedora 43, fedora 44, ubuntu jammy

💖 MALAGA(1) — the Malaga quick reference, bestie edition 💖

okay so. you opened the manual for malaga, which lives in section 1 of the man pages, and honestly? iconic. let's get into it. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

malaga — natural-language word and sentence analysis. that's the whole vibe. words in, analysis out. periodt.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

malaga [-morphology|-syntax] [-quoted] [-input input] project-file

that's it. that's the shape of it. one project-file, and a lil pile of optional flags that we're gonna go through one by one, no skipping, promise. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Malaga is a development environment for natural-language grammars based on the Left-Associative Grammar formalism. so you write grammars, and Malaga helps you run them. and those grammars can do automatic morphological and/or syntactic analysis — like, either one, or both. your call. 👑

The program malaga is Malaga's user interface for analysing word forms and sentences, displaying the results, and — the part everyone lowkey needs — finding bugs in a grammar. because grammars have bugs. they always do. 😭

malaga requires the name of a language-dependent project-file as a command-line argument. like, it's not optional, bestie. you have to hand it the project file or nothing happens.

If no command line options are given, malaga starts in interactive mode, and you can enter commands. and if you're not sure about the name of a command? use the command help to get an overview of all malaga commands. so helpful. so generous. 🫶

If you want to quit malaga, enter the command quit. that's the exit. no drama, no Ctrl-C chaos (though, y'know, do what you gotta do).

See info Malaga for details. fr fr, that's where the real lore lives.

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

one bullet per flag, as promised. every single one, exactly as written, no cap. 💖

  • -h[elp] — print a help text about malaga's command line arguments and exit. it's giving "just tell me what to type". very valid. ✨
  • -i[nput] input — analyse a single word or sentence given as command line argument. and heads up: this one is only valid in morphology or syntax mode. don't try it outside those, it's not that girl. 🙈
  • -m[orphology] — start malaga in morphology mode. in this mode word forms are read in from the standard input stream and analysed, one word form per line. and the analysis result is written to the standard output stream. clean pipeline energy. 🌈
  • -q[uoted] — the input lines to be analysed are quoted. also only valid in morphology or syntax mode. same rule as -i, bestie. 💅
  • -s[yntax] — start malaga in syntax mode. in this mode sentences are read in from the standard input stream and analysed, one sentence per line. the analysis result is written to the standard output stream. sentence by sentence, slay. 🔥
  • -v[ersion] — print malaga's version number and exit. sometimes you just wanna know what you're working with. 👑

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Malaga was written by Bjoern Beutel. and numerous other people distributed to Malaga — a whole squad, honestly. 🫶

This manpage was originally written for the Debian distribution by Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho. thank you for your service, king. 🎀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole friend group:

and also:

  • ``Malaga 7, User's and Programmer's Manual''. available in Debian systems via info Malaga, and — if the malaga-doc package is installed — in various formats (DVI, Postscript, PDF, HTML) under /usr/share/doc/malaga-doc/. the full multiverse of documentation. 📚✨

🌟 bye bestie 🌟

that was the Malaga manpage, quick-reference flavor, dated 26 September 2006, from the Malaga crew, and it's filed right here in MALAGA(1). now go analyse some sentences. you're gonna ate. 💖💅🎀

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