---
name: "malsym"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "malaga-bin"
version: "7.12-9"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/malsym"
---

# malsym(1)

compile a Malaga symbol file

## NAME

malsym - compile a Malaga symbol file

## SYNOPSIS

**malsym** *symbol-file*

**malsym** *extended-symbol-file* **-use** *symbol-file*

## DESCRIPTION

Malaga is a development environment for natural-language grammars based on the Left-Associative Grammar formalism.  Malaga grammars can be used for automatic morphological and/or syntactic analysis.

The program **malsym** compiles a Malaga symbol file. Give it the symbol file (suffix **.sym** or **.esym**) that is to be translated as argument. If an *extended-symbol-file* (suffix **.esym**) is to be compiled, you must add the option **-use**.

See **info Malaga** for details.

## OPTIONS

- **-h**\[**elp**\]

  Print a help text about **malsym**'s command line arguments and exit.

- **-u**\[**se**\] *symbol-file*

  Use the already compiled *symbol-file* as the base symbol file when compiling an *extended symbol file*.

- **-v**\[**ersion**\]

  Print **malsym**'s version number and exit.

## AUTHORS

Malaga has been developed by Bjoern Beutel.  Numerous other people distributed to it.  This manpage was originally written for the Debian distribution by Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho.

## SEE ALSO

[**malaga**(1)](/malaga/1.md), [**mallex**(1)](/mallex/1.md), [**malmake**(1)](/malmake/1.md), [**malrul**(1)](/malrul/1.md), [**malshow**(1)](/malshow/1.md)

\`\`Malaga 7, User's and Programmer's Manual''.  Available in Debian systems via **info Malaga**, and, if the malaga-doc package is installed, in various formats (DVI, Postscript, PDF, HTML) under */usr/share/doc/malaga-doc/*.