RMLIGS(1)

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🎀 RMLIGS(1) — your girl's guide to fixing German ligatures in LaTeX 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the rmligs page from the User Manuals collection — yes it's a whole manual page, yes it's iconic, and yes I'm gonna walk you through every single bit of it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

rmligs — removes incorrectly used ligatures from German LaTeX documents 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

rmligs [options] FILE(s) ...

literally that's it. options, then as many files as your heart desires 💖

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so rmligs is a program for removing incorrectly used ligatures from LaTeX documents. and when I say this version, I mean it — this one is intended for German language texts only, no cap 🇩🇪

here's the vibe: words like

`Auflage´

are gonna get changed into

`Auf"|lage´

which — and this is the whole point — is typographically correct ✨ like, the ligature situation was a mess and now it's not, we love a glow-up 🦋

the wordlist data is based on the igerman98 dictionary 📚 (yes, the data has lore)

and the input data? super chill about it. it 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 — the way that it just handles it, we stan 😭👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --filter, -f — filter mode 🔥 useful for streaming, iykyk
  • --test, -t — test mode 🌸 this just shows what would be changed but nothing will be written (read-only, we're just looking 👀). heads up: this does not make sense in filter mode
  • --interactive, -i — prompt before applying changes 🙈 a little check-in, as a treat
  • --quiet, -q — quiet operation 🤫

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

  • the German language README file from the documentation of this program 📄
  • Duden (the German's orthography bible) 📖
  • nice and mostly older hand-set books 📜 — yes, genuinely, go look at them

✨ BUGS ✨

ngl bestie, there is no sanity checking of LaTeX files 😭 rmligs will happily correct words in all files — even binaries! 💀 for safety reasons there is always a .bak file created, so at least you have that 🫶

and also: checking latin1 text in UTF-8 locales might throw out some error messages about malformed UTF-8, but — deep breath — that does not matter, the file is processed correctly ⭐

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Bjoern Jacke 👑

send mail to bjoern [at] j3e.de for bug reports and suggestions ✉️

and that's the whole page, bestie — no crumbs left behind 🧚💜

this gorgeous little number comes to you from the Linux manual, dated November 2002 — vintage, but make it slay 🎀✨

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