aeidon
======

aeidon is a Python package for reading, writing and manipulating
text-based subtitle files. It is used by the gaupol package, which
provides a a subtitle editor application with a GTK+ user interface.

Separating a user-interface independent general-purpose subtitle editing
package from Gaupol has been an afterthought and thus not well designed
to be a reusable component, but on the other hand is proven, working and
maintained code.

Installation
============

To install only either the aeidon or the gaupol package, use one
of the following commands

    python3 setup.py --without-gaupol install [--prefix=...]
    python3 setup.py --without-aeidon install [--prefix=...]

Note that the `--with-*` and `--without-*` are global options and must
be placed before any commands.

Dependencies
============

Of the dependencies listed in the [`README.md`](README.md) file, Python,
PyEnchant, iso-codes and chardet are to be associated with aeidon. If
aeidon is installed using the `--without-iso-codes` switch, then
iso-codes is required instead of optional. gaupol should depend on the
remaining dependencies as well as aeidon of the same version.
