Apertium-view

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Apertium-view is a little program which can be used to view and edit the output of the various stages of an apertium translation.

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Currently, the program is in its early stages and it will take some time before it becomes fully usable. But if you are a developer with some knowledge of Python and PyGTK, you can already dive in.

Getting apertium-view

Check out the apertium-tools/apertium-view from the subversion repository.

Running apertium-view

Configuring apertium-view

Edit the contents of config.py to reflect you installation setup. apertium_bin_path is the path of the directory containing the Apertium executables. apertium_dict_path is the path to directory on your computer containing all of the compiled language pairs. On my computer it's /usr/local/share/apertium. This directory contains apertium-en-af, apertium-en-ca, etc.

Executing the program

Apertium-view is very user-hostile at the moment and it won't even properly tell you what you did wrong if you pass it the wrong flags.

The format is

apertium-view-py <language code> <modes file path> [<mode code>]

The language code is something like en-af or en-ca. The modes path is the path to your modes XML file. The mode code is optional and refers to the name of a mode in the modes file; if you omit it, the first mode is used.