RMLIGS-GERMAN(1)

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💖 RMLIGS-GERMAN 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the rmligs-german manual page from the User Manuals collection and it's genuinely so useful 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

rmligs-german — the little program that removes incorrectly used ligatures from German LaTeX documents 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rmligs-german [options] FILE(s) ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So rmligs-german is a program for removing incorrectly used ligatures from LaTeX documents. No cap. This version is intended for German language texts only, iykyk.

Words like Auflage for example will be changed to Auf"|lage which is typographically correct. The way that just works? Obsessed. 🔥

The wordlist data is based on the igerman98 dictionary. Periodt.

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. She's multilingual, she's versatile, she's iconic. ✨

👑 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). Ngl this does not make sense in filter mode. 🙈
  • --interactive, -i — prompt before applying changes. Consent king. 🫶
  • --quiet, -q — quiet operation. Shhh, she's being demure. 🤫

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

  • The German language /usr/share/doc/rmligs-german/README.ligatures 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-german will happily correct words in all files — even binaries! 😭 For safety reasons there is always a .bak file created. Thank god, honestly.

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. She's fine, she's just loud about it. 💖

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Bjoern Jacke

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

and that's the whole thing bestie, love that for us 💖 this was the rmligs-german page for Linux, dated November 2002, and honestly? still serving. slay 🎀✨💅

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