TALER-TERMS-GENERATOR(1)

📦 version 1.3.0, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💖 taler-terms-generator(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to taler-terms-generator — it's a manual page from the GNU Taler docs and it's genuinely so iconic once you get it. buckle up 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

taler-terms-generator — literally the tool that creates legal policy documents for services. no cap, that's the whole vibe 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

taler-terms-generator [-a AUTHOR] [-C COPYRIGHT] [-h] [-i INPUT]
[-l LANGUAGE] [-o OUTPUT] [-p PAPER] [-t TITLE]

like, that's the shape of it. every one of those flags gets its own moment below, don't worry 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So taler-terms-generator is a command-line tool that creates terms of service and privacy policy files — in various file formats and languages — starting from a reStructuredText (".rst") input. it's giving "glow-up machine for your legal text" ✨

and the actual point? it can be used to generate the responses that the various GNU Taler services serve under the /terms and /pp endpoints. so yeah, it's doing real work 😌

💅 the options, one by one

  • -a AUTHOR — sets the author information to whatever AUTHOR you give it, in the meta-data of various generated outputs. put your name on it, main character energy 👑
  • -C COPYRIGHT — sets the copyright information to the given COPYRIGHT, also in the meta-data of various generated outputs. protect the bag, bestie 💀
  • -h, --help — prints a compiled-in help text. that's it, that's the whole thing 🙈
  • -i INPUT — the name of the input (.rst) file with the terms of service or privacy policy to convert. here's the cute part: if you give the full path with the language code, the -l option will be derived from it automatically. but you can also just give the short name (like "taler-exchange-tos-v0") and the tool will try to locate the input file for you and use the language you specified with -l. flexible queen 💖
  • -l LANGUAGE — output files for the given LANGUAGE for the current INPUT. LANGUAGE must be a two-letter language code (like "de" or "it"). the default is "en". 🇩🇪🇮🇹🇬🇧
  • -o OUTPUT — specifies where to write the output. this should be the directory where the service expects to find the generated resources. unless you changed the default configuration, you probably do not have to specify this value — so lowkey just leave it alone 🌈
  • -p PAPER — specifies the paper format for generated PDF documents. can be "a4" or "letter". choose your fighter 🥊
  • -t TITLE — overrides the document title. by default, the title gets set to the contents of the first line of the INPUT ".rst" file. so yes, your first line is doing double duty, no pressure ⭐

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read those too, they're part of the lore 🧚

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? report it by using https://bugs.taler.net/ or by sending electronic mail to <taler@gnu.org>. please do, they want to know, fr fr 😭

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

GNU Taler contributors 💜

2014-2025 Taler Systems SA (GPLv3+ or GFDL 1.3+)

and that's the whole page, bestie. you ate this. periodt 💅✨

okay so that's a wrap on version 1.0, dated Dec 22, 2025 — the TALER-TERMS-GENERATOR(1) manual page, signed off with love 🌸🦋💖

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