QXW(6)

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✨ NAME ✨

qxw — create and publish crosswords. And yes bestie, this is the QXW(6) page from the Games Manual, so buckle up. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

qxw [options] [file]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so this manual page is just a lil quick tour of the qxw command, fr fr.

Qxw is the program that helps you create and publish crosswords, from the simplest blocked grid all the way to sophisticated thematic puzzles. It can make rectangular-, hexagonal- or circular-format grids with blocks, bars, or both. It has an automatic grid-filling facility that can handle a wide range of answer treatments, and you can even add your own answer treatment methods. Grids can be filled using letters, digits, or a mixture of both; non-Roman and custom alphabets are also supported. Qxw can produce output in a range of formats ready for publication. 💅

Qxw can run interactively with a GUI (that's the default) or non-interactively. In non-interactive mode it can be used to solve a wide range of word-based constraint satisfaction problems and can help automate the exploration of grid designs. 🧚

In interactive mode the optional argument is the name of a crossword description file in Qxw's native format to load at start-up. In non-interactive mode the argument is mandatory, and specifies a problem for Qxw's filler to solve.

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -? — pops up the usage summary, including the built-in alphabets, plus version and licence info. 👑
  • -d file — loads the dictionary you name at start-up. You can repeat this option to load multiple dictionaries. 🍓
  • -a alphabet — loads the alphabet you name at start-up. The built-in alphabets show up in the usage summary info. ✨
  • -b — turns on batch (non-interactive) mode. 💀

Also, it takes the standard GTK options — but those only do anything in interactive mode. 🫶

Exit status is 0 for a normal exit, and 16 for a file format error, an internal error, or any other catastrophic failure. And in non-interactive mode, exit status 4 means no solution was found for the problem you specified.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

gtk-options(7).

Further documentation, including a PDF manual, lives at <https://www.quinapalus.com/qxw.html>.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Qxw was written by Mark Owen. 🌈

This manual page was written by Mark Owen <debian@quinapalus.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). 💌

And that's the whole vibe, bestie. This was the QXW(6) page from the Games Manual, dated March 22, 2019. Periodt. 💅✨

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