Remove incorrectly used ligatures from german latex documents
rmligs-german [options] FILE(s) ...
rmligs-german 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 correctly.
filter mode. This is useful for streaming.
test mode. This just shows what would be changed but nothing will be written (read-only). This does not make sense in filter mode.
prompt before applying changes
quiet operation
The German language /usr/share/doc/rmligs-german/README.ligatures file from the documentation of this program,
Duden (the German\'s orthography bible),
nice and mostly older hand-set books
There is no sanity checking of LaTeX files; rmligs-german 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 processed correctly.
Bjoern Jacke
Send mail to bjoern [at] j3e.de for bug reports and suggestions.