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William Whitaker's WORDS, a Latin dictionary
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William Whitaker's WORDS, a Latin dictionary

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mk270/whitakers-words
• Owner: mk270
• License: other
• Created: 2015-06-13T10:49:01.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-07-03T14:52:07.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-31T20:45:49.178Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Ada
• Homepage: http://mk270.github.io/whitakers-words/
• Size: 6.9 MB
• Stars: 270
• Watchers: 25
• Forks: 54
• Open Issues: 45
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Support: support_utils.gpr

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[Project Website](http://mk270.github.io/whitakers-words/)

WORDS

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This is a cleaned-up version of the port of William Whitaker's WORDS

programme, a Latin-English dictionary with inflectional morphology

support; the original author passed away in 2010, so any and all help

maintaining the software as development and execution environments evolve

would be greatly appreciated.

Effectively, this is an exercise in digital preservation.

Contributing

============

Help is needed maintaining the code for future users; in particular, it

does not currently support vowel length, so it may be necessary to gather

a group of Latin experts to adjust its lexicon of several thousand words.

If you contribute, please be sure to indicate your assent to redistributing

your contributions under the same terms as the existing software; this

will minimise copyright hassles in the future.

Usage

=====

    $ make

    $ bin/words

Documentation

=============

See the HOWTO.txt file included, 

and documentation on the [Project Website](http://mk270.github.io/whitakers-words/operational.html)

Build-time Dependencies

=======================

* GPRBuild

* gnat

On a Debian-like system, you can install these roughly as follows:

    $ apt-get install gprbuild gnat

GNAT versions before 4.9 are believed to link against a buggy runtime on

64-bit platforms, so should be avoided.

Licensing

=========

WORDS, a Latin dictionary, by Colonel William Whitaker (USAF, Retired)

Copyright William A. Whitaker (1936-2010)

This is a free program, which means it is proper to copy it and pass

it on to your friends. Consider it a developmental item for which

there is no charge. However, just for form, it is Copyrighted

(c). Permission is hereby freely given for any and all use of program

and data. You can sell it as your own, but at least tell me.

This version is distributed without obligation, but the developer

would appreciate comments and suggestions.

All parts of the WORDS system, source code and data files, are made freely

available to anyone who wishes to use them, for whatever purpose.