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.TH verbiste "3" "April 28th, 2012" "" ""
.SH NAME
verbiste \- french conjugation system
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B g++ prog.cpp `pkg\-config \-\-cflags \-\-libs libxml\-2.0` \-lverbiste-0.1
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
\fBVerbiste\fR
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.
.PP
There are two commands, named
\fBfrench-conjugator(1)\fR
and
\fBfrench-deconjugator(1)\fR,
which make the library's functionality available
from the command line and from scripts.
.PP
The GNOME application should be available under the GNOME Applications menu.
It can also be run from the command line
by typing
\fBverbiste\fR.
Verbiste can also be used as a
GNOME Panel applet.
.SH EXAMPLES
The library's source archive comes with Perl and Java example programs
that call the
\fBfrench-conjugator(1)\fR
and
\fBfrench-deconjugator(1)\fR
commands.
There are also example programs that use the C application programming
interface.
.PP
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).
.SH 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.
.SH AUTHOR
Pierre Sarrazin
.PP
See the verbiste Home Page:
.br
http://sarrazip.com/dev/verbiste.html
.PP
Comments are welcome.
.SH SEE ALSO
french-conjugator(1), french-deconjugator(1).
.SH 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.
.PP
Version 0.1.x is an unstable development version.
The programming interface of the library
and the command-line options of the accompanying commands
are not necessarily fixed.
.PP
The documentation is not complete.
.PP
The verb list and the conjugation templates have not been verified
in detail.