NAME

showeva.pl - The EVA browser, version 0.4 beta


SYNOPSIS

perl showeva.pl [OPTIONS] [FILESPEC]


DESCRIPTION

This is a browser for extracted Voynich MS transcriptions, designed to be used together with viat.pl.

The extracted text can be viewed in a nice GUI interface.


OPTIONS

This program accepts mainly the GNU long option syntax. For normal usage, there is no need for options at all, but sometimes you may find them nice.

Everything you can set as an option, you can change at runtime by using the GUI.

--help or -h or -?
Show the option overview.

--locators or --nolocators
Enable or disable the display of line locators. By default, the line locators are enabled.

--evafont or --noevafont
Enable or disable the transcription display using the EVA Hand 1 font. By defualt, the font is used.

--special or --nospecial
Enable or disable some special markup. At the moment, this is related to the percent signs and the exclamation signs. By defualt, the special markup is disabled.

--coments or --nocomments
Enable or disable the display of the meta-comments generated by the viat.pl tool with the -M option. By defualt, the comments are displayed.

--inline or --noinline
Enable or disable the display of the inline comments, written in curly brackets. By default, the inline comments are displayed.


FILE SPECIFICATION

If there is no specification, no file is read. You can select a file in the File menu.

If exactly one filename is given on the command line, the file will be loaded and displayed in the GUI.

If the filename is a single dash, the file is read from the standard input, so you can use the EVA browser in a pipe.


BUGS

There are no known bugs at the moment. Some minor bugs from the 0.02 beta version are fixed, some new bugs may occur instead of them.

The program was meant to be experimental, and the source is a mess. It may be hard to add additional features.


TODO

It should be possible to generate viat.pl output using a nice gui and to save the generated text.


AUTHOR

showeva.pl was written by Michael Winkelmann, michael@weltretter.de