.TH MALSYM 1 "26 September 2006" Malaga "Malaga quick reference"

.SH NAME

malsym \- compile a Malaga symbol file

.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBmalsym\fP \fIsymbol-file\fP

.PP

\fBmalsym\fP \fIextended-symbol-file\fP \fB-use\fP \fIsymbol-file\fP

.SH DESCRIPTION

Malaga is a development environment for natural-language grammars based on the

Left-Associative Grammar formalism.  Malaga grammars can be used for

automatic morphological and/or syntactic analysis.

.PP

The program \fBmalsym\fP compiles a Malaga symbol file. Give it the symbol file

(suffix \fB.sym\fP or \fB.esym\fP) that is to be translated as argument. If

an \fIextended-symbol-file\fP (suffix \fB.esym\fP) is to be compiled, you must

add the option \fB-use\fP.

.PP

See \fBinfo Malaga\fP for details.

.SH OPTIONS

.IP "\fB-h\fP[\fBelp\fP]"

Print a help text about \fBmalsym\fP's command line arguments and exit.

.IP "\fB-u\fP[\fBse\fP] \fIsymbol-file\fP"

Use the already compiled \fIsymbol-file\fP as the base symbol file when

compiling an \fIextended symbol file\fP.

.IP "\fB-v\fP[\fBersion\fP]"

Print \fBmalsym\fP's version number and exit.

.SH AUTHORS

Malaga has been developed by Bjoern Beutel.  Numerous other people distributed

to it.  This manpage was originally written for the Debian distribution by

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho.

.SH SEE ALSO

\fBmalaga\fP(1), \fBmallex\fP(1), \fBmalmake\fP(1), \fBmalrul\fP(1),

\fBmalshow\fP(1)

.PP

``Malaga 7, User's and Programmer's Manual''.  Available in Debian

systems via \fBinfo Malaga\fP, and, if the malaga-doc package is installed,

in various formats (DVI, Postscript, PDF, HTML) under

\fI/usr/share/doc/malaga-doc/\fP.