13.4.2 Use

HDMAN is invoked by typing the command line

   HDMan [options] newDict srcDict1 srcDict2 ...

This causes HDMAN read in the source dictionaries srcDict1, srcDict2, etc. and generate a new dictionary newDict. The available options are

-a s
Each character in the string s denotes the start of a comment line. By default there is just one comment character defined which is #.
-b s
Define s to be a word boundary symbol.
-e dir
Look for edit scripts in the directory dir.
-g f
File f holds the global edit script. By default, HDMAN expects the global edit script to be called global.ded.
-h i j
Skip the first i lines of the j'th listed source dictionary.
-i
Include word output symbols in the output dictionary.
-l s
Write a log file to s. The log file will include dictionary statistics and a list of the number of occurrences of each phone.
-m
Merge pronunciations from all source dictionaries. By default, HDMAN generates a single pronunciation for each word. If several input dictionaries have pronunciations for a word, then the first encountered is used. Setting this option causes all distinct pronunciations to be output for each word.
-n f
Output a list of all distinct phones encountered to file f.
-o
Disable dictionary output.
-p f
Load the phone list stored in file f. This enables a check to be made that all output phones are in the supplied list.
-t
Tag output words with the name of the source dictionary which provided the pronunciation.
-w f
Load the word list stored in file f. Only pronunciations for the words in this list will be extracted from the source dictionaries.
-Q
Print a summary of all commands supported by this tool.

HDMAN also supports the standard options -A, -C, -D, -S, -T, and -V as described in section 4.4.