GAUPOL(1)						      General Commands Manual							 GAUPOL(1)

NAME

       gaupol - editor for text-based subtitle files

SYNOPSIS

       gaupol [OPTION...] [FILE...] [+[NUM]]

DESCRIPTION

       gaupol  is  an editor for text-based subtitle files.  It supports multiple subtitle file formats and provides means of correcting texts and
       timing subtitles to match video.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Show command line options.

       --version
	      Show version number.

       -c, --config-file=FILE
	      Set the configuration file to use instead of the default.

       -e, --encoding=ENCODING
	      Set the character encoding to use for opening files.

       --list-encodings
	      List possible character encodings to use with --encoding.

       +[NUM] Go to subtitle number NUM in the opened file.  If NUM is missing go to the last subtitle.

       -t, --translation-file=FILE
	      Open translation file.

       -a, --align-method=METHOD
	      Method used to align translation file's subtitle texts with main document's subtitles. Possible values are 'number' and  'position'.
	      The  default  is	'position', which compares the positions in the main document and the translation file and inserts the translation
	      texts so that those positions match. Existing subtitles are skipped and new ones inserted  as  needed.  'number'	discards  position
	      information and inserts the N translation texts into the first N subtitles.

       -v, --video-file=FILE
	      Select video file.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       The behaviour of gaupol is affected by the following environment variables.

       GAUPOL_DEBUG
	      If set to a non-empty string, gaupol will perform additional checks during run-time that may help in finding and locating bugs.

AUTHOR

       Written by Osmo Salomaa <otsaloma@iki.fi>.

								  August 23, 2008							 GAUPOL(1)