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.
app.pl - Application Framework Library
name.pl - Name Processing Library
misc.pl - Miscellaneous Library
