If running TrEd from command-line you may use several command-line options and also give TrEd one or more files to open. Each file-name may be also appended number of tree to be displayed by TrEd when the file is opened.
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You may need to replace tred with perl tred in the following usage examples in Windows or UNIX, if you cannot set tred the execute permissions. | |
The general usage is:
or to obtain short instructions on usage (-u) or a brief help (-h).The optional command-line parameters have the following meaning:
- -m
This parameter may be used to force TrEd to use a different macro file from that given in TrEd's configuration file.
- -c
This parameter may be used to force TrEd to use a certain configuration file.
- -l
Use this parameter to pass a file-list to TrEd. Each file-name given in the file-list must be on a separate line. This feature may be particulary useful under Windows, where maximum length of the command-line is usually very limited.
- -h
- -u
All other arguments passed to TrEd on the command line are considered file-names to open. (TrEd actually opens only one file at a time, but user may go to the next/previous file using the File->Next File and File->Previous File menu commands.)
Every file-name either on the command-line or in a file-list may be given a number suffix which makes TrEd open that file on that tree. There are two possible formats for the suffices:
- #N
where N is a number possibly followed by one or more upper-case letters. In this case, #N TrEd searches and displays the first tree in the file the root of which is assigned #N as a value of the attribute form (this feature works only for FS-files of The Prague Dependency Treebank).
- ##N
where N is a number. This makes TrEd to display the N'th tree when the given file is opened.