sera2any(1)

NAME
sera2any - converts SERA Fidel into a specified output system

SYNOPSIS
sera2any [ -c ] [ -h ] [ -l ] [ -o system ] [ -q ] [ -rtf ] [ -s ] [ -stats system ] [ -v ] < infile ... >

DESCRIPTION
sera2any is a utility for conversion of SERA text into a secondary output system. sera2any works with the libeth parsing engine written in AT&T lex and GNU flex. A variety of command line options are offered to set SERA defaults when they are not defined in the document body. sera2any output is written to stdout. Current output encoding option are for Unicode, Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS), and the Japanese Unix Network (JUNET). RTF and limited TeX and LaTeX support is also offered.

OPTIONS

-c  Map ASCII colon, ``:'', to Ge'ez colon (-:) and not to the default Ge'ez wordspace (:). Ge'ez word space may now only be given by `: .

-fromdos
    The input file is DOS text, strip out DOS ^M end of line characters. Output will be in Unix text. This option impacts parsing speed and is only available when sera2any is compiled for DOS support.

-h  Echoes help list to stderr and exits.

-html
    Forces HTML conversion, leaving text between < and > or & and ; as Latin.

-l LL(L)
    Set starting language to that specified by LL or LLL where LL(L) is an ISO-639 two or three letter identifier. Supported languages are: am(h), ge(z), la(t), & ti(r).

-o system
    Specify output of type system. System defaults as JUNET or may be one of sera, alxet, agafari, feedel, jis, java, unicode, or washra. Appending -html to the system forces the scanner to leave as Latin all text between < and >.

    Example:
    -o uni [Unicode Output]
    -o jis-html [JIS Output With HTML Filtering]

-q  Map ASCII question mark, ``?'', to Ge'ez 3-Dot question mark (`?) and not to the default Ge'ez stylized question mark (?). The use of ? and `? in SERA text are now reversed.

-rtf
    Output in Rich Text Format. Supported for Agafari, ALXEthiopian, Feedel, and Washra fonts currently.

-s  Map ASCII space, `` '', to Ge'ez wordspace (:).

-stats system
    Provides a Fidel table with statistical output of character occurrences into the files ``fidel.stats'' and sorted statistics in ``fidel2.stats''. System defaults as sera or may be one of junet, jis, alxet, agafari, feedel, unicode, or washra. Appending -html to the system name will format the statistics output for HTML.

    Example: -stats jis-html

-todos
    The input file is Unix text, insert DOS ^M end of line characters. Output will be in DOS text. This option impacts parsing speed and is only available when sera2any is compiled for DOS support.

-v  Echo version number and exit.

AVAILABILITY

By ftp: ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/fidel/sera2any/

Text References

The System For Ethiopic Representation In ASCII,
ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/fidel/sera-docs/sera.ps
The System User's Guide
ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/fidel/sera-docs/sera-guide.ps
The SERA FAQ
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/dmulholl/fidel/sera-faq.html

SEE ALSO
sera(1), pssera(1)

BUGS
None reported, but lurking...