README.PLIST

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";
	}