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

.SH NAME
malrul \- compile a Malaga rule file

.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBmalrul\fP \fIsymbol-file\fP \fIrule-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 \fBmalrul\fP compiles a Malaga rule file. Give it the rule file
that is to be translated (suffix \fB.mor\fP, \fB.syn\fP or \fB.all\fP) and the
associated symbol file (suffix \fB.sym\fP or \fB.esym\fP) as command-line
arguments. The order of the arguments is arbitrary.
.PP
See \fBinfo Malaga\fP for details.

.SH OPTIONS
.IP "\fB-h\fP[\fBelp\fP]"
Print a help text about \fBmalrul\fP's command line arguments and exit.
.IP "\fB-v\fP[\fBersion\fP]"
Print \fBmalrul\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), \fBmalshow\fP(1),
\fBmalsym\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.