The Kaptain Handbook

Terék Zsolt terek@users.sourceforge.net

For a nice overview, read the article here which has appeared in the Linux Gazette. (by Paul Evans)

To see, how Kaptain is used in molecular biology with the EMBOSS package, go to the page http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~sgmd/. (by Thomas Siegmund)

A small example illustrates how databases can be accessed from Kaptain.

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Changes

2. Installation, General Usage

• 2.1 How to obtain Kaptain
• 2.2 Requirements
• 2.3 Compilation and installation
• 2.4 Bugs
• 2.5 General Usage

3. Kaptain grammars

• 3.1 About grammar rules
• 3.2 Quoted strings
• 3.3 Specials
• 3.4 How the dialog is built
• 3.5 Modifiers
• 3.6 Text appearing in the dialog
• 3.7 Dirty tricks
• 3.8 Example grammars

4. Text manipulation

• 4.1 Regular expressions
• 4.2 Substitution
• 4.3 Translations
• 4.4 Using text manipulation in grammar rules

5. Questions and Answers

6. Copyright