MALRUL(1)

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

💅 MALRUL(1) — the Malaga quick reference, bestie edition 🎀

okay so you found malrul in the manual pages and you're like "what is this" — don't worry, I got you. this is the page for compiling a Malaga rule file, and honestly? it's giving short-and-sweet. let's go. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

malrul — compile a Malaga rule file 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

malrul symbol-file rule-file

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so. Malaga is a whole development environment for natural-language grammars, and it's built on the Left-Associative Grammar formalism. what does that mean for you? it means Malaga grammars can be used for automatic morphological and/or syntactic analysis. very main character of them, honestly. 👑

the program malrul compiles a Malaga rule file. that's the whole job. periodt.

here's how you feed it: give it the rule file that's getting translated — that's the one with suffix .mor, .syn or .all — and the associated symbol file — that's the one with suffix .sym or .esym — as command-line arguments. 🫶

fun fact: the order of the arguments is arbitrary. yes really. swap them, it does not care. iconic behaviour.

want the full lore? see info Malaga for details. iykyk. 📖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h[elp] — print a help text about malrul's command line arguments, then exit. the "i'm confused bestie" button, no shame in it. 🙈
  • -v[ersion] — print malrul's version number, then exit. vibe check on which version you're running. ⭐

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Malaga was developed by Bjoern Beutel. numerous other people distributed to it. 🌈

this manpage was originally written for the Debian distribution by Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho. shoutout to them fr fr. 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

also, the ``Malaga 7, User's and Programmer's Manual'' — you can get to it on 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/. go read it, it's so good. 📚✨

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎉 brought to you by the Malaga crew, dated 26 September 2006 — yeah she's an elder but she still slays. mwah 💅💖

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