1GAUPOL(1)                   General Commands Manual                  GAUPOL(1)
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NAME

6       gaupol - editor for text-based subtitle files
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SYNOPSIS

9       gaupol [OPTION...] [FILE...] [+[NUM]]
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DESCRIPTION

12       gaupol  is an editor for text-based subtitle files.  It supports multi‐
13       ple subtitle file formats and provides means of  correcting  texts  and
14       timing subtitles to match video.
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OPTIONS

17       -h, --help
18              Show command line options.
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20       --version
21              Show version number.
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23       -c, --config-file=FILE
24              Set the configuration file to use instead of the default.
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26       -e, --encoding=ENCODING
27              Set the character encoding to use for opening files.
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29       --list-encodings
30              List possible character encodings to use with --encoding.
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32       +[NUM] Go to subtitle number NUM in the opened file.  If NUM is missing
33              go to the last subtitle.
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35       -t, --translation-file=FILE
36              Open translation file.
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38       -a, --align-method=METHOD
39              Method used to align translation file's subtitle texts with main
40              document's  subtitles.  Possible  values are 'number' and 'posi‐
41              tion'. The default is 'position', which compares  the  positions
42              in  the  main  document and the translation file and inserts the
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44              tles  are skipped and new ones inserted as needed. 'number' dis‐
45              cards position information and inserts the N  translation  texts
46              into the first N subtitles.
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48       -v, --video-file=FILE
49              Select video file.
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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

52       The  behaviour of gaupol is affected by the following environment vari‐
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55       GAUPOL_DEBUG
56              If set to a non-empty string,  gaupol  will  perform  additional
57              checks  during  run-time  that  may help in finding and locating
58              bugs.
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AUTHOR

61       Written by Osmo Salomaa <otsaloma@cc.hut.fi>.
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65                                August 23, 2008                      GAUPOL(1)