vindex.pl - The Voynich interlinear transcription indexer.
vindex.pl [OPTIONS]
This program generates an index file from a Voynich interlinear transcription archive. This index may be used by other programs or for analysis purposes as a complete concordance of the Voynich manuscript.
If you want to do efficient searches with vfind, you should run this program to create an index.
-h
or -?
or --help
-f file-spec
or --evafile=file-spec
)By default, the file 'text16e6.evt' is used.
-o file-spec
or --indexfile
By default, the file 'vindex.idx' is used.
-u
or --unreadable
or --keep_unreadable
An unreadable word is any word which includes a asterisk character identifing an unreadable glyph.
It does not make much sense to include this words in an index for searching, but for some analysis purposes this may be useable, so you can use this option.
The format of the index file is rather straightforward and easy to use with all the popular un*x tools (awk, perl). It serves as a complete concordance of the manuscript.
There is a line for every word, the items are separated by spaces.
The line starts with the word, followed by all locators of the transcription where this word can be found.
Michael Winkelmann, michael@weltretter.de