NAME

     lt-compose — compiled dictionary composition for Apertium

SYNOPSIS

     lt-compose transducer1_binary transducer2_binary composed_binary

DESCRIPTION

     lt-compose is the application responsible for composing two compiled dictionaries, matching
     the output-side of transducer1 with the input-side of transducer2. By default, matches are
     anchored to initial/final states, so the transducer2 has to match full paths (in regex
     terms, transducer2 is implicitly surrounded by ^ and $). But there is also support for
     letting transducer2 match sub-paths of transducer1 (in which matches become optional, making
     the composition a superset of transducer1). Matching sub-paths means that transducer2 can
     start matching in the midst of paths of transducer2 (in regex terms, transducer2 is
     implicitly surrounded in .* on both sides).

OPTIONS

     -i, --inverted
             Apply transducer2 to the input-side (left) of transducer1 instead of the output-
             side. You would do this when altering the forms of an analyser.

     -a, --anywhere
             Allow transducer2 to match sub-paths instead of requiring matching initial/final
             states. Matches then become optional.

     -j, --jobs
             Parallelise composition by using one cpu core per section of transducer1. You can
             also set the environment variable LT_JOBS=true if you always want parallelisation
             where available in lttoolbox.

FILES

     transducer1_binary
             a finite state transducer

     transducer2_binary
             a finite state transducer

     composed_binary
             a finite state transducer

SEE ALSO

     apertium(1), apertium-tagger(1), lt-comp(1), lt-expand(1), lt-print(1), lt-trim(1),
     lt-proc(1)

AUTHOR

     Copyright © 2005-2022 Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de Alicante.  This is free
     software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public
     License: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.

BUGS

     Many... lurking in the dark and waiting for you!