lxt application

lxt application

Lxt grew as a testing environment for the development of lx. It is a text-based application that behaves as a simple shell. It supports command history, aliases, simple batch-style scripts, and initialization files (which are simply scripts).

Commands are arranged in modules that roughly correspond to the major components of the lx library. They take arguments and flags much like system commands do. This is not as convenient as a proper GUI would be, but makes for rapid module development and extension.

Some analysis modules have been written to explore the possibilities of lx. These are:

• Basic statistics (text summary)
• Character frequencies
• Word length frequencies
• Word and category frequencies
• Word and category densities
• Word and category collocations
• Markov chains
• Frequency comparison across ranges and texts

Documentation

• Lxt Quick Reference (HTML)
• Application Documentation (PDF) (skeleton outline only)
• API Documentation (PDF) (not there yet)

Sample sessions

• Example loading text and listing
• Example using a script to load
• Example using statistics and "last" command
• Example $HOME/.lx2rc file
• Example aliases file

Sample outputs in HTML

• Sample word frequency output
• Sample word density output
• Sample category frequency output
• Sample category density output
• Sample collocation output

With some hacking around and GnuPlot or Ploticus, it's even possible to get nice graphs:

(One of the goals is to make this much easier to do.)