verbiste(3)verbiste(3)NAME
verbiste - french conjugation system
SYNOPSIS
g++ prog.cpp `pkg-config --cflags --libs libxml-2.0` -lverbiste-0.1
DESCRIPTION
Verbiste is a library that can conjugate French verbs given in the infinitive form and analyze conjugated French verbs. It is also a GNOME
Panel applet and a GNOME application.
There are two commands, named french-conjugator(1) and french-deconjugator(1), which make the library's functionality available from the
command line and from scripts.
The GNOME application should be available under the GNOME Applications menu. It can also be run from the command line by typing verbiste.
Verbiste can also be used as a GNOME Panel applet.
EXAMPLES
The library's source archive comes with Perl and Java example programs that call the french-conjugator(1) and french-deconjugator(1) com-
mands. There are also example programs that use the C application programming interface.
The library and the commands use verb and conjugation knowledge bases that are represented as XML files that are installed with the library
(typically in /usr/share/verbiste-0.1).
LICENSE
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no
warranty.
AUTHOR
Pierre Sarrazin
See the verbiste Home Page:
http://sarrazip.com/dev/verbiste.html
Comments are welcome.
SEE ALSO french-conjugator(1), french-deconjugator(1).
BUGS
The FrenchVerbDictionary object is not completely destroyed when its destructor is called, in order to avoid the excessively long clean up
time of its internal trie. Only one instance of this class should be created and it should be destroyed when the program quits.
Version 0.1.x is an unstable development version. The programming interface of the library and the command-line options of the accompany-
ing commands are not necessarily fixed.
The documentation is not complete.
The verb list and the conjugation templates have not been verified in detail.
April 28th, 2012 verbiste(3)
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french-conjugator(1)french-conjugator(1)NAME
french-conjugator - conjugate French verbs
SYNOPSIS
echo aimer | french-conjugator > result.txt
DESCRIPTION
french-conjugator reads the infinitive form of French verbs from the command line or from standard input and writes (to standard output)
the complete conjugation of those verbs, if they are known.
The standard input is not read if verbs are passed as command-line arguments.
Each mode and tense is introduced by a line that starts with a hyphen and a space, and ends with a colon. The mode and tense in that line
are always in English, regardless of the user's current locale. (This is meant to facilitate automatic parsing of the output. For a
French user interface, see the GNOME application and applet.) The conjugation is ended with a line that only contains a hyphen. If the
given verb is unknown or not in the infinitive form, only this line is written.
The command flushes its output buffer after finishing each answer. This allows the command to be easily called from another program
through two pipes.
The command starts by loading its database from XML files (stored typically in /usr/share/verbiste). This takes some time, so it is a good
idea to have the command answer many requests instead of running it for each request.
The verbiste library's source archive contains Perl and Java example programs that illustrate this technique.
There must not be any leading or trailing white spaces on the lines read by the command.
In the past participle tense, four lines are written: they correspond in order to the masculine singular, masculine plural, feminine singu-
lar and feminine plural.
OPTIONS --help display a help page and exit
--version
display version information and exit
--lang=L
select the language to use (fr for French or it for Italian); French is the default language
--mode=M
only display mode M, where M can be infinitive, indicative, conditional, subjunctive, imperative or participle
--tense=T
only display tense T, where T can be present, past, imperfect or future
--pronouns
show the pronouns
--utf8 assume that the terminal uses the UTF-8 encoding instead of Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1); try this option if Verbiste claims not to know a
verb that contains an accented character
--all-infinitives
print the infinitive form of all the verbs in the knowledge base, one per line, unsorted; other command-line arguments are ignored
EXAMPLES
$ french-conjugator aimer
- infinitive present:
aimer
- indicative present:
aime
aimes
aime
aimons
aimez
aiment
- indicative imperfect:
aimais
aimais
aimait
[...]
- participle past:
aime
aimes
aimee
aimees
-
LICENSE
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no
warranty.
AUTHOR
See the verbiste(3) manual page.
BUGS
See the verbiste(3) manual page.
SEE ALSO verbiste(3), french-deconjugator(1).
April 28th, 2012 french-conjugator(1)