.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.