---
name: "rmligs-german"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "rmligs-german"
version: "20161207-15"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/rmligs-german"
---

# rmligs-german(1)

remove incorrectly used ligatures from German LaTeX documents

## NAME

rmligs-german - remove incorrectly used ligatures from German LaTeX documents

## SYNOPSIS

**rmligs-german** \[**options**\] *FILE(s) ...*

## DESCRIPTION

**rmligs-german** is a program for removing incorrectly used ligatures from LaTeX documents. This version is intended for German language texts only. Words like \`Auflage' e.g. will be changed to \`Auf"\|lage' which is typographically correct.

The wordlist data is based on the igerman98 dictionary.

The input data may be ISO-8859-1/15 or UTF-8 encoded text. Also the German LaTeX like encoding of umlauts ("a, "u etc.) is treated correctly.

## OPTIONS

- filter mode. This is useful for streaming.

  - \--filter, -f

  - \--test, -t

  test mode. This just shows what would be changed but nothing will be written (read-only). This does not make sense in filter mode.

- \--interactive, -i

  prompt before applying changes

- \--quiet, -q

  quiet operation

## SEE ALSO

The German language */usr/share/doc/rmligs-german/README.ligatures* file from the documentation of this program,

Duden (the German's orthography bible),

nice and mostly older hand-set books

## BUGS

There is no sanity checking of LaTeX files; rmligs-german will happily correct words in all files - even binaries! For safety reasons there is always a .bak file created.

checking latin1 text in UTF-8 locales might throw out some error messages about malformed UTF-8 but that does not matter - the file is processed correctly.

## AUTHOR

Bjoern Jacke

Send mail to bjoern \[at\] j3e.de for bug reports and suggestions.