• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• OPTIONS
• FILES
• INDEX FILE FORMAT
• AUTHOR

NAME

vindex.pl - The Voynich interlinear transcription indexer.

SYNOPSIS

vindex.pl [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

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.

OPTIONS

-h or -? or --help

Show an option overview.

-f file-spec or --evafile=file-spec)

Select a transcription file for indexing.

By default, the file 'text16e6.evt' is used.

-o file-spec or --indexfile

Select the output file for the generated index.

By default, the file 'vindex.idx' is used.

-u or --unreadable or --keep_unreadable

Include all unreadable or partly unreadable words in the generated index.

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.

FILES

text16e6.evt

The interlinear transcription, as provided by J. Stolfi.

vindex.idx

The index file. Other tools may expect the existance of this file.

INDEX FILE FORMAT

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.

AUTHOR

Michael Winkelmann, michael@weltretter.de