2. SDFAPI
2.1. Overview
The libraries provided with SDF are summarised below.
| Name | Purpose |
| General: | |
| parse.pl | general parsing and processing of SDF files |
| app.pl | application framework for all SDF scripts |
| name.pl | filename processing routines |
| table.pl | table processing routines (including read/write of TBL files) |
| dict.pl | dictionary processing routines |
| misc.pl | miscellaneous routines |
| Support: | |
| subs.pl | general run-time support |
| macros.pl | built-in macros |
| filters.pl | built-in filters |
| specials.pl | built-in special phrase styles |
| Drivers: | |
| toraw.pl | raw format driver |
| tomif.pl | MIF format driver |
| tohtml.pl | HTML format driver |
| totxt.pl | plain text format driver |
| topod.pl | POD format driver |
| toman.pl | man page format driver |
| API extraction: | |
| apiperl.pl | routines for extracting API information from a Perl library |
Further details on the general libraries are given below.
app.pl - Application Framework Library
name.pl - Name Processing Library
misc.pl - Miscellaneous Library
