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Command-Line Reference
======================
Usage Form
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Invocations of ptulsconv take the following form:
ptulsconv [options] IN_FILE
Flags
-----
`-h`, `--help`
Show the help message.
`f FMT`, `--format=FMT`
Select the output format. By default this is `doc`, which will
generate :ref:`ADR reports<adr-reports>`.
The :ref:`other available options<alt-output-options>`
are `raw` and `tagged`.
Informational Options
"""""""""""""""""""""
These options display information and exit without processing any
input documents.
`--show-formats`
Display information about available output formats.
`--show-available-tags`
Display information about tags that are used by the
report generator.
.. _alt-output-options:
Alternate Output Formats
------------------------
.. _raw-output:
`raw` Output
""""""""""""
The "raw" output format is a JSON document of the parsed input data.
The document is a top-level dictionary with keys for the main sections of the text export: `header`,
`files`, `clips`, `plugins`, `tracks` and `markers`, and the values for these are a list of section
entries, or a dictionary of values, in the case of `header`.
The text values of each record and field in the text export is read and output verbatim, no further
processing is done.
.. _tagged-output:
`tagged` Output
"""""""""""""""
The "tagged" output format is also a JSON document based on the parsed input data, after the additional
step of processing all of the :ref:`tags<tags>` in the document.
The document is a top-level array of dictionaries, one for each recognized ADR spotting clip in the
session. Each dictionary has a `clip_name`, `track_name` and `session_name` key, a `tags` key that
contains a dictionary of every parsed tag (after applying tags from all tracks and markers), and a
`start` and `end` key. The `start` and `end` key contain the parsed timecode representations of these
values in rational number form, as a dictionary with `numerator` and `denominator` keys.