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Björn Gohla <b.gohla@gmx.de> 01.08.2001

When configuring

$ perl ./config.pl --plist

enables property list output in cmafihe, the lojban glosser. Thus

$ cmafihe -p

will output the property list to the standard output. Property lists are stringified representations of data structures like hash tables, arrays, or binary data very well integrated in gnustep (http://www.gnustep.org). the library libPropList (which can be retrieved from http://www.windowmaker.org) is a C API for those data structures.

I have implemented and tested this only on my Linux box, so I have no idea whether it works on any other platform.

The motivation for this feature is that I am working on a vocabulary learning tool (soon to be released) which is written in gnustep. I want to be able to take arbitrary Lojban text and extract all valid Lojban words, such that having leared the extracted vocabulary one is able to understand the text. So I may someday be able to follow Lojban discussions on lojban@yahoogroups.com ;) .

For the sake of authenticity here comes a little preview:

$ echo "mi na jimpe la'e di'u " |./cmafihe -p

yields

        {
                mi = "I, me";
                na = not;
                jimpe = understand;
                "la'e" = "the referent of";
                "di'u" = "last utterance";
        }