You will need SBCL and quicklisp already installed, and also need to know how to use quicklisp.
On the command line do:
$ cd ~/quicklisp/local-projects/
$ git clone [email protected]:Aksej/Mang.git
$ echo "mang/mang.simplest.asd\n" >> ./system-index.txt
$ cd [where/do/you/want/mang/to/live]
$ sbcl
Then in SBCL:
* (ql:quickload "mang.simplest")
* (mang.simplest::compile-simplest-mang)This will create the simplest-mang executable. Make it executable via
$ chmod +x ./simplest-mang
The executable has these command line options:
-f, --features path/to/features.mang (Required)
Phonological feature description file
-l, --language-base path/to/language/base.mang (Required)
Language description file
-d, --language-dictionary path/to/language/dictionary.mang (Required)
Language dictionary file
-D, --diachrony path/to/language/diachrony.mang
Diachrony file
-c, --computer-readable
Print the dictionary in a format that is uniquely parseable by Mang
A feature definition file starts with
# features
For an example of a complete feature definition file see
test/features.mang. That file does not contain any examples of binary
features.
Privative features are either present or absent in a feature set. You can define privative features like this:
privative : [feature1], [feature2], [feature3], ...
Binary features can be true, false, or unset in a given feature set. Define binary features like this:
binary : [feature1], [feature2], [feature3], ...
Valued features have a defined set of possible values which they can have. Valued features can also be absent from a feature set. They are defined via:
valued : [feature] := [value1], [value2], [value3], ...
Feature sets are used in multiple contexts. They are delimited with square
brackets []. In them different feature states can be specified.
To denote that a privative feature is present in a feature set, just put its name into the feature set:
[bilabial, round]
denotes a rounded bilabial phoneme.
To denote a privative feature's absence, put a ~ before the name of the
feature:
[bilabial, ~round]
denotes an unrounded bilabial phoneme.
To denote a binary feature being true, write it into the feature set with a
preceding +:
[+high]
To denote it being false, prefix it with a -:
[-high]
A valued feature is written with it's name, followed by an =, followed by the
value the feature has:
[manner=stop]
The following character sequences are not allowed in glyphs:
( ) { } [ ] < > . , + -> → => = : := | # ## ~
Glyphs may also not contain whitespace. All other unicode symbols may be used in glyph names.