2. SDFAPI

2.1. Overview

The libraries provided with SDF are summarised below.

Name	Purpose
General:
parse.pl	general parsing and processing of SDF files
app.pl	application framework for all SDF scripts
name.pl	filename processing routines
table.pl	table processing routines (including read/write of TBL files)
dict.pl	dictionary processing routines
misc.pl	miscellaneous routines
Support:
subs.pl	general run-time support
macros.pl	built-in macros
filters.pl	built-in filters
specials.pl	built-in special phrase styles
Drivers:
toraw.pl	raw format driver
tomif.pl	MIF format driver
tohtml.pl	HTML format driver
totxt.pl	plain text format driver
topod.pl	POD format driver
toman.pl	man page format driver
API extraction:
apiperl.pl	routines for extracting API information from a Perl library

Further details on the general libraries are given below.