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proycon / foliatools

A number of command-line tools for working with FoLiA (Format for Linguistic Annotation). Includes validators, converters, visualisers, and more.
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folia2html: Command line options for a single file #27

Closed pirolen closed 3 years ago

pirolen commented 3 years ago

Not sure how -o is meant to be used when a single input file is to be converted with folia2html.

Clear: If I do `folia2html inputfile1 inputfile2' both output html files get written in the resp. dirs of the inputfiles.

Just mentioning that I was a bit confused what to do, if I want to convert a single file and write the output html to a file, because then the above syntax does not work, i.e. folia2html inputfile1 must be used with redirection ('>').

I then checked the --help and thought that the -o option would be what I was after, but somehow I might have missed something. If I do folia2html inputfile -o target_htmlfile, I get ERROR: File or directory not found: -o and it seems no conversion takes place.(?)

If I do folia2html inputfile -o (and nothing else), then the html file is written to the same dir as the inputfile, but there is also the complaint. "ERROR: File or directory not found: -o".

proycon commented 3 years ago

That looks like a bug in the interface yes the -o option should have indeed worked as you described. I'll take a look. You can use redirection in the meantime of course.