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

