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NAME

       rmligs - remove incorrectly used ligatures from German LaTeX documents

SYNOPSIS

       rmligs [options] FILE(s) ...

DESCRIPTION

       rmligs is a program for removing incorrectly used ligatures from LaTeX documents.  This version is intended for German language texts only.
       Words like `Auflage' e.g. will be changed to `Auf"|lage' which is typographically correct.

       The wordlist data is based on the igerman98 dictionary.

       The input data may be ISO-8859-1/15 or UTF-8 encoded text. Also the German LaTeX like encoding of umlauts ("a, "u  etc.)  is  treated  cor-
       rectly.

OPTIONS

       --filter, -f
	      filter mode. This is useful for streaming.

       --test, -t
	      test mode. This just shows what would be changed but nothing will be written (read-only). This does not make sense in filter mode.

       --interactive, -i
	      prompt before applying changes

       --quiet, -q
	      quiet operation

SEE ALSO

       The German language README file from the documentation of this program,

       Duden (the German's orthography bible),

       nice and mostly older hand-set books

BUGS

       There  is  no  sanity  checking of LaTeX files; rmligs will happily correct words in all files - even binaries! For safety reasons there is
       always a .bak file created.

       checking latin1 text in UTF-8 locales might throw out some error messages about malformed UTF-8 but that does not matter - the file is pro-
       cessed correctly.

AUTHOR

       Bjoern Jacke

       Send mail to bjoern [at] j3e.de for bug reports and suggestions.

Linux								   November 2002							 RMLIGS(1)