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Manuals

The letters 'ps' in front of a program means the program produces a PostScript image.

General
Files
| Formats | definitions of file formats shared between programs
| Unicode | how to use unicode in the programs leven, features, and xstokens
Dialectometrics
Programs
| leven | using the Levenshtein algorithm, derive a difference matrix for a set of locations based on sets of strings for each location
| giw | using the Gewichteter Identitätswert, derive a difference matrix for a set of locations based on sets of labels for each location
| bugtest | what about the Alpha Cronbach bug in leven and giw?
| features | feature difference calculation for Levenshtein measurement
| xstokens | tokenise datafiles from X-SAMPA or similar
| perfiles | permutate linguistic data
| sssplit | split a single spreadsheet into a set of files
Validation
Programs
| linc | calculate the Local Incoherence of a difference matrix, a numerical validation method
Hierarchical clustering
Programs
| cluster | perform hierarchical clustering on a difference matrix
ps | den | display a hierarchical clustering in a dendrogram
| clgroup | derive a partitioning from a hierarchical clustering
| clnewick | translate a cluster file to the Newick tree format
Multidimensional scaling
Programs
| mds | perform multidimensional scaling on a difference matrix
ps | mdsplot | MDS-plot with cluster marking
Cartography
File
| Configuration | setting global options for all maps of a single region
Programs
| mapsetup | generate files needed by `mapclust`, `mapdiff`, `maplink`, `mapmap`, `maprgb`, and `mapvec`
ps | mapclust | draw a map with clustering
ps | maprgb | draw a colour map, for example, using the data from 3D multidimensional scaling
ps | maplink | draw a map with links between locations
ps | mapmap | draw a plain map, without any clustering or other colours
ps | mapdiff | draw a difference map (e.g. composite cluster map)
ps | mapvec | draw a vector map
| ll2grid | map coordinates from longitude and latitude onto a rectangular projection
Miscellaneous tools
Programs
ps | legend | make a legend of colours, patterns or symbols used in maps created by den, `mdsplot`, and mapclust
| diffix | fix an incomplete difference matrix by guessing from differences between locations close to the ones whose values are missing
| difinfo | get statistical info from a difference matrix file
| difmod | derive a new difference matrix from an old difference matrix by merging or deleting items
| difsum | combine several difference matrix files into one
| locmod | derive a new set of coordinates from an old set of coordinates by merging or deleting items (locations)
| ll2dst | derive a distance matrix for a set of locations given their longitude and latitude coordinates
| dif2tab | convert a difference table file, such as created be the progams leven and giw, into a tab-delimited file
| vec2tab | convert a vector file, such as created be the progam mds, into a tab-delimited file