vlatai(1L)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the vlatai(1L) manual page — the main character here is vlatai, and it’s a Lojban word analyzer. That’s the whole name vibe: vlatai — Lojban word analyzer. Periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

vlatai [ -v ] [ word ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So vlatai is a program that reads a list of Lojban words from standard input, one word per line. In its usual mode, it writes a single output line for each input line, advising you of which kind of Lojban word the input line is. Like, it’s giving word-category reveal ✨.

If the input word has cmavo prefixed onto it, vlatai shows the individual cmavo and the base word itself. No cap, it breaks it down for you 🫶.

In verbose mode — which you get with -v — the workings of the internal state machines used for scanning the word are exposed. This may give some insight into where an error lies on words that can’t be parsed, especially if the output is used in conjunction with the report files built during the compilation process. iykyk, debug girlie behavior 💅.

Note that vlatai is primarily a testbench for the word categorizer/splitter inside jbofihe. vlatai is not fully supported or documented as a stand-alone program. So treat it like the cool internal tool it is, not a fully polished standalone icon.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -v — Verbose; show lots of information about the evolution of the internal state.
• word — The word to check. If no word argument is supplied, the program reads words from standard input, one word per line (with no whitespace around it.)

🦋 REFERENCES 🦋

• http://www.rc0.org.uk/jbofihe — Home page for the jbofihe project (of which cmafihe is part).
• http://www.lojban.org/ — Home page of the Lojban community.

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk> — iconic, honestly.

catch u later, bestie — this was vlatai(1L), dated December 2000 💖✨