VSTREE2TEX(1)

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version 2.3.1+git20240412.b3b8ac0 · 3 versions
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💖 VSTREE2TEX — pretty-print a virtual tree 💖

okay bestie, so this one is vstree2tex, from the VSTREE2TEX(1) manual, and it's literally the arts-and-crafts era of suffix trees. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

vstree2tex — pretty-print a virtual tree 🌳✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

vstree2tex [options] indexname

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so vstree2tex takes a virtual suffix tree and produces a representation of it in LATEX format, then prints that to standard output. it's giving glow-up but for data structures. 💅

🚨 bestie listen. vstree2tex should only be used for very small indexes, because it produces large output files. no cap.

let's talk math for a sec, don't scroll. suppose the total length of all sequences in the index is n. if the option -s is not used, then the output size of vstree2tex is about 10n bytes per option — plus some constant number of bytes for the header and the footer of the LATEX file. if the option -s is used, then the size of the output is proportional to n^2. yeah. n squared. she's not subtle. 😭

and like, what is this program for? it's mainly designed for debugging a program based on the index, and for educational purposes. so it's basically the study-group queen of tools 🧚📚

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -s — output suffixes ✨
  • -tis — output tistab
  • -ois — output oistab
  • -suf — output suftab
  • -sti1 — output small inverse suftab
  • -bwt — output bwttab
  • -bck — output bcktab in vertical mode ⬆️⬇️
  • -bckhz — output bcktab in horizontal mode ⬅️➡️
  • -lcp — output lcptab
  • -skp — output skptab
  • -cfr — output cfrtab
  • -crf — output crftab (yes, that's a different one from -cfr, do not come for me, they're both right there 😌)
  • -lsf — output lsftab
  • -sti — output inverse suftab
  • -cld — output cldtab
  • -iso — output isotab
  • -version — show the version of the Vmatch package 🏷️
  • -help — show help 🫶

that's the whole vibe. every table, every flag, all of it, exactly as the original says. 💜

and that's a wrap on this page from the VSTREE2TEX(1) manual — mwah, take care of her, she's iconic 👑💖

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