A crossword generator
Project description
A crossword generator
Description
Genxword is a crossword generator written in Python. It works with Python 2.7 and Python 3.
There are two versions, genxword-gtk, which has a graphical user interface, and genxword, which runs from the command line.
Both versions create a crossword from a list of words and clues. You can save the crossword, with clues, as a pdf file, or you can save the empty grid and key in png and/or svg format, together with the word bank and clues in a text file.
Features
The crossword can be saved, with clues, as a pdf file, or the empty grid and key can be saved in png and/or svg format, together with the word bank and clues in a text file.
The crossword can be recalculated multiple times - with the option to increase the grid size at each stage.
A dictionary file can be used as the word list. A certain amount of words (default 50) will be randomly selected from the file and used to make the crossword.
When editing the word list, there is an option to sort it, from the shortest to the longest word, and remove non-alphabetic characters.
Multiple languages, including right-to-left languages, such as Hebrew and Arabic, are now supported.
Use
Please read the wiki for information about how to use genxword.
Installation
To install genxword for Python 3:
pip3 install genxword
To install genxword for Python 2.7:
pip install genxword
Dependencies
Genxword depends on pycairo (python-cairo), pygobject (python-gobject or python-gi), python-gi-cairo (if you are using a Debian-based system), pango (gir1.2-pango-1.0) and gtksourceview3 (gir1.2-gtksource-3.0).
Windows users can download these dependencies from here When installing python-gobject, you also need to install gtk3, pango, gdk-pixbuf and gtksourceview3.
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