Hi.

I faced this error under Windows, using Cygwin, after installing the package with pip:

$ genxword --help
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/genxword", line 7, in <module>
    from genxword.cli import main
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/genxword/cli.py", line 21, in <module>
    from .control import _, Genxword, PY2
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/genxword/control.py", line 24, in <module>
    from .calculate import Crossword, Exportfiles
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/genxword/calculate.py", line 22, in <module>
    from gi.repository import Pango, PangoCairo
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi'

When I run pip3 install genxword, it fails with an error message referring to the French PO/MO file. See error log below:

Complete output (33 lines):
/bin/sh: msgfmt: command not found
/bin/sh: msgfmt: command not found
/bin/sh: msgfmt: command not found
/bin/sh: msgfmt: command not found
/bin/sh: msgfmt: command not found
/bin/sh: msgfmt: command not found
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib
creating build/lib/genxword
copying genxword/complexstring2.py -> build/lib/genxword
copying genxword/complexstring.py -> build/lib/genxword
copying genxword/calculate.py -> build/lib/genxword
copying genxword/control.py -> build/lib/genxword
copying genxword/__init__.py -> build/lib/genxword
copying genxword/cli.py -> build/lib/genxword
copying genxword/gui.py -> build/lib/genxword
running egg_info
writing genxword.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to genxword.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing entry points to genxword.egg-info/entry_points.txt
writing top-level names to genxword.egg-info/top_level.txt
reading manifest file 'genxword.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
writing manifest file 'genxword.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
creating build/lib/genxword/data
copying genxword/data/gumby.lang -> build/lib/genxword/data
copying genxword/data/help_page -> build/lib/genxword/data
running install_lib
running install_data
error: can't copy 'mo/fr/genxword.mo': doesn't exist or not a regular file

Key image file does not show the Chinese characters.

Thanks for your program!

It would be great to have an ability to add some letters on crossword to get some additional clues.

Love your program. As a sign of my gratitude I translated it into dutch (nl).

SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.

Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER

This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.

FIRST AUTHOR EMAIL@ADDRESS, YEAR.

msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: 2014-05-25 19:47+0100\n"
"Project-Id-Version: \n"
"POT-Creation-Date: \n"
"PO-Revision-Date: \n"
"Last-Translator: Koen Wybo [email protected]\n"
"Language-Team: \n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"

: control.py:30

msgid ""
"The word list file contains the words and clues, or just words, that you want in your crossword. \n"
"For further information on how to format the word list file and about the other options, please consult the man page.\n"
msgstr ""
"De lijst met woorden bevat ofwel de woorden en de sleutels of enkel de woorden, die je in je kruiswoordraadsel wenst \n"
"Aanvullende informatie over de indeling van de woordenlijst en andere opties vind je terug in de hulp(man)-pagina. \n"

: control.py:68

msgid "Enter grid size ("
msgstr "Voer rastergrootte in ("

: control.py:68

msgid " is the default): "
msgstr "is de standaardwaarde):"

: control.py:83

msgid "Calculating your crossword..."
msgstr "Berekenen van het kruiswoordraadsel..."

: control.py:92

msgid "Are you happy with this solution? [Y/n] "
msgstr "Ben je tevreden met deze oplossing? [Y/n]"

: control.py:93

: control.py:96

msgid "n"
msgstr "n"

: control.py:95

msgid "And increase the grid size? [Y/n] "
msgstr "Rasterafmetingen groter maken?[Y/n]"

: control.py:98

: gui.py:78

msgid "Across/Down"
msgstr "Verticaal"

: control.py:99

msgid "The following files have been saved to your current working directory:\n"
msgstr "Deze bestanden werden opgeslagen in je huidige werkmap:\n"

: control.py:105

msgid "Crossword generator."
msgstr "Kruiswoordraadsel generator."

: control.py:106

msgid "Name of word list file."
msgstr "Naam van het woordenlijstbestand."

: control.py:107

msgid "Save files as A4 pdf (p), letter size pdf (l), png (n) and/or svg (s)."
msgstr "Bestand opslaan als A4 pdf (p), letter us pdf (l), png (n) en/of svg (s)."

: control.py:108

msgid "Automated (non-interactive) option."
msgstr "Automatische (niet-interactieve) optie. "

: control.py:109

msgid "Create anagrams for the clues"
msgstr "Aanmaken van anagrammen voor de oplossingen. "

: control.py:110

msgid "Number of words to be used."
msgstr "Aantal te gebruiken woorden."

: control.py:111

msgid "Name of crossword."
msgstr "Naam van het kruiswoordraadsel."

: gui.py:104

msgid "_Word list"
msgstr "_Woordenlijst"

: gui.py:105

msgid "_New word list"
msgstr "_Nieuwe woordenlijst"

: gui.py:106

msgid "Create a new word list or go back to the already open word list"
msgstr "Maak nieuwe woordenlijst aan of terug naar openstaande woordenlijst"

: gui.py:107

msgid "_Open word list"
msgstr "_Open woordenlijst"

: gui.py:107

msgid "Open a word list"
msgstr "Open een nieuwe woordenlijst"

: gui.py:108

msgid "_Sort word list"
msgstr "_Sorteer woordenlijst"

: gui.py:109

msgid "Sort the word list and remove words with non-alphabetic characters"
msgstr "Sorteer de woordenlijst en verwijder woorden met niet-alfabetische karakters. "

: gui.py:110

msgid "Quit"
msgstr "Afsluiten"

: gui.py:111

msgid "_Crossword"
msgstr "_Kruiswoordraadsel"

: gui.py:112

msgid "_Calculate crossword"
msgstr "_Bereken kruiswoordraadsel"

: gui.py:113

msgid "Calculate the crossword"
msgstr "Bereken kruiswoordraadsel"

: gui.py:114

msgid "_Recalculate"
msgstr "_Herbereken"

: gui.py:115

msgid "Increase the grid size and recalculate the crossword"
msgstr "Vergroot de rastergrootte en herbereken het kruiswoordraadsel"

: gui.py:116

msgid "_Save"
msgstr "_Opslaan"

: gui.py:116

msgid "Save crossword"
msgstr "Sla kruiswoordraadsel op"

: gui.py:117

: gui.py:118

msgid "_Help"
msgstr "_Help"

: gui.py:118

msgid "Open the help page"
msgstr "Open de helppagina"

: gui.py:119

msgid "_About"
msgstr "_Over"

: gui.py:119

msgid "About"
msgstr "Over..."

: gui.py:123

msgid "Anagram clues"
msgstr "Anagram sleutels"

: gui.py:124

msgid "Choose the grid size"
msgstr "Kies de rastergrootte"

: gui.py:173

msgid "Save the crossword as"
msgstr "Sla kruiswoordraadsel op als"

: gui.py:176

msgid "A4 pdf"
msgstr "A4 pdf"

: gui.py:180

msgid "letter pdf"
msgstr "Letter (us) pdf"

: gui.py:194

msgid "Name of crossword"
msgstr "Naam kruiswoordraadsel"

: gui.py:196

msgid "Choose the name of your crossword"
msgstr "Kies de naam van het kruiswoordraadsel"

: gui.py:201

msgid "Number of words"
msgstr "Aantal woorden"

: gui.py:208

msgid "Choose the number of words you want to use"
msgstr "Kies het aantal woorden die je wenst te gebruiken"

: gui.py:211

msgid "Grid size"
msgstr "Rastergrootte"

: gui.py:217

msgid ""
"Choose the crossword grid size\n"
"Go to the Crossword menu to enable this option"
msgstr ""
"Kies de rastergrootte \n"
"Ga naar het kruiswoordraadselmenu om deze optie te activeren. "

: gui.py:251

msgid "Please choose a file"
msgstr "Selecteer bestand"

: gui.py:321

msgid "Please choose a folder"
msgstr "Selecteer een map"

: gui.py:336

msgid "Your crossword files have been saved in "
msgstr "De kruiswoordraadselbestanden zijn opgeslagen in"

: gui.py:340

msgid ""
"Please fill in the name of the crossword and the format you want it saved in (A4 size pdf, letter size pdf, png or svg).\n"
"Then click on the Save button again."
msgstr ""
"Vul de naam van het kruiswoordraadsel in en het bestandstype om in op te slaan (A4 pdf, letter (us) pdf, png of svg). \n"
"Klik opnieuw op de opslaan-knop."

: gui.py:367

msgid "A crossword generator"
msgstr "Een kruiswoordraadsel generator"

The latest version available on pypi/pip is 1.2.0, where the current version is 2.0.0.

Also, the description on here mentions the gettext dependency whereas the description in pypi has it missing like it used to on here.

Thanks

Hi.

Here is the error I get:

$ pip --version
pip 10.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip (python 3.6)
$ pip install genxword >out.log 2>&1
Collecting genxword
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/78/b3/db348c150f79edcadf1cdc3e25ac4a6a4e74ed6d675689c6855f37952629/genxword-1.2.0.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: genxword
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for genxword: started
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for genxword: finished with status 'error'
  Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-ezquh6jv/genxword/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-wwpsgl8n --python-tag cp36:
  /bin/sh: msgfmt : commande introuvable
  /bin/sh: msgfmt : commande introuvable
  /bin/sh: msgfmt : commande introuvable
  /bin/sh: msgfmt : commande introuvable
  /bin/sh: msgfmt : commande introuvable
  /bin/sh: msgfmt : commande introuvable
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  creating build
  creating build/lib
  creating build/lib/genxword
  copying genxword/calculate.py -> build/lib/genxword
  copying genxword/cli.py -> build/lib/genxword
  copying genxword/complexstring.py -> build/lib/genxword
  copying genxword/complexstring2.py -> build/lib/genxword
  copying genxword/control.py -> build/lib/genxword
  copying genxword/gui.py -> build/lib/genxword
  copying genxword/__init__.py -> build/lib/genxword
  running egg_info
  writing genxword.egg-info/PKG-INFO
  writing dependency_links to genxword.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
  writing entry points to genxword.egg-info/entry_points.txt
  writing top-level names to genxword.egg-info/top_level.txt
  reading manifest file 'genxword.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
  reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
  writing manifest file 'genxword.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
  creating build/lib/genxword/data
  copying genxword/data/gumby.lang -> build/lib/genxword/data
  copying genxword/data/help_page -> build/lib/genxword/data
  installing to build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel
  running install
  running install_lib
  creating build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64
  creating build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel
  creating build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword
  copying build/lib/genxword/calculate.py -> build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword
  copying build/lib/genxword/cli.py -> build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword
  copying build/lib/genxword/complexstring.py -> build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword
  copying build/lib/genxword/complexstring2.py -> build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword
  copying build/lib/genxword/control.py -> build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword
  creating build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword/data
  copying build/lib/genxword/data/gumby.lang -> build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword/data
  copying build/lib/genxword/data/help_page -> build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword/data
  copying build/lib/genxword/gui.py -> build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword
  copying build/lib/genxword/__init__.py -> build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword
  running install_data
  creating build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword-1.2.0.data
  creating build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword-1.2.0.data/data
  creating build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword-1.2.0.data/data/share
  creating build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword-1.2.0.data/data/share/applications
  copying extra/genxword-gtk.desktop -> build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword-1.2.0.data/data/share/applications
  creating build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword-1.2.0.data/data/share/pixmaps
  copying extra/genxword-gtk.png -> build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword-1.2.0.data/data/share/pixmaps
  creating build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword-1.2.0.data/data/share/locale
  creating build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword-1.2.0.data/data/share/locale/ca
  creating build/bdist.cygwin-2.10.0-x86_64/wheel/genxword-1.2.0.data/data/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES
  error: can't copy 'mo/ca/genxword.mo': doesn't exist or not a regular file
  
  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for genxword
  Running setup.py clean for genxword
Failed to build genxword
Installing collected packages: genxword
  Running setup.py install for genxword: started
    Running setup.py install for genxword: finished with status 'error'
    Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-ezquh6jv/genxword/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-282d62fw/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    /bin/sh: msgfmt : commande introuvable
    /bin/sh: msgfmt : commande introuvable
    /bin/sh: msgfmt : commande introuvable
    /bin/sh: msgfmt : commande introuvable
    /bin/sh: msgfmt : commande introuvable
    /bin/sh: msgfmt : commande introuvable
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build/lib
    creating build/lib/genxword
    copying genxword/calculate.py -> build/lib/genxword
    copying genxword/cli.py -> build/lib/genxword
    copying genxword/complexstring.py -> build/lib/genxword
    copying genxword/complexstring2.py -> build/lib/genxword
    copying genxword/control.py -> build/lib/genxword
    copying genxword/gui.py -> build/lib/genxword
    copying genxword/__init__.py -> build/lib/genxword
    running egg_info
    writing genxword.egg-info/PKG-INFO
    writing dependency_links to genxword.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
    writing entry points to genxword.egg-info/entry_points.txt
    writing top-level names to genxword.egg-info/top_level.txt
    reading manifest file 'genxword.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
    reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
    writing manifest file 'genxword.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
    creating build/lib/genxword/data
    copying genxword/data/gumby.lang -> build/lib/genxword/data
    copying genxword/data/help_page -> build/lib/genxword/data
    running install_lib
    running install_data
    error: can't copy 'mo/ca/genxword.mo': doesn't exist or not a regular file
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-ezquh6jv/genxword/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-282d62fw/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-ezquh6jv/genxword/

Same thing with Python 2.

It would be really cool if you could add a feature to combine the grid and the clues (without the word bank) and export them to a PDF!

Thanks!
Scott

does this script need to be updated ?

Is there a more current version of the same tool using python code ?

It is hard to get all the graphics libraries to work properly on different systems. For example, it really took me a while to install and configure pygobject3 and cairo on mac osx to just get it barely working.

On the other hand, the most needed is the crosswords themselves. I can simply use an Excel sheet to create my own styling as long as I can have the pure text console outputs. So it would be really good if there is an option to generate a pure text output without the need to import any graphics related libraries.

I think it's dead

Hey, both the python2 and python3 versions fail when trying to run the gui with errors like:

ERROR:root:Could not find any typelib for GtkSource
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/genxword3-gtk", line 4, in <module>
    from genxword3 import gui
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages/genxword3/gui.py", line 23, in <module>
    from gi.repository import Gtk, GtkSource, Pango
ImportError: cannot import name GtkSource

python-gobject and python-cairo (and their python2 equivalents) are installed.

Thanks!
Scott

Hi, thank you for this wonderful program.

I'm trying to make a hebrew crossword, I used the python3 version which allowed me to write the words in hebrew. However, when genxword generated the crossword, it did it in a reverse order.

To explain: hebrew language is written and read from right to left. So genxword should generate the crossword taking into account that the vertical words should go from top to bottom (as they already do, that's fine) and the horizontal words should go from right to left.

That is, to make it more graphical: the word HELLO, if genxword thinks should go in the horizontal way, should be put OLLEH. However in the vertical way it should treat it as it does right now, no change needed.

Do you think this is possible? I'd love to help doing it but I'm not an experienced python programmer, maybe if you give me some tips of where should this be taken care of, I can try to see and solve it... but I'm just a computer loving rabbi...

Thank you!!

Rabbi Tuvia Serber.

Thanks for this excellent program.

Currently, the boxes that are printed in pdf/png are all individual boxes, inside their own grid. this makes some lines appear thick, if there is a box next to it, and some of them thin. Can we mark the boundaries as standard, and if required overwrite the lines between boxes, so as to give a more beautiful look to the output crossword.

For example, in calculate.py, draw_img, if we change to the following, the png generated is much more print friendly.
context.set_line_width(3.0)
context.set_source_rgb(0.3, 0.3, 0.3)

Thanks.

It would be greate to add the ability to only build the CLI interface/program. Personally, I mostly use this program/package at work through Cygwin/WSL on windows without any GUI and have no need for the GTK side of things.

I'd like the ability to build the program to not have that part and to not need the GTK dependencies. An obvious workaround is just have it build with the deps then delete the files I don't need, but I'd prefer the ability to have it trimmed down when I build it to begin with.

Thanks

Failed to build PyGObject
ERROR: Could not build wheels for PyGObject which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

Steps to reproduce:
pip3 install genxword

In the PDF exported, the output has it showing the across clues followed beneath by the down clues. I'd prefer being able to have them listed side-by-side manner.

Here is example output from a crossword I created earlier:

Across
2. 파란색
4. 분홍색
6. 보라색
8. 초록색
10. 노란색
11. 회색
Down
1. 빨간색
2. 검은색
3. 하얀색
5. 주황색
7. 갈색
9. 색깔

And this is how I'd prefer the same to look:

Across          Down
2. 파란색         1. 빨간색
4. 분홍색         2. 검은색
6. 보라색         3. 하얀색
8. 초록색         5. 주황색
10. 노란색        7. 갈색
11. 회색          9. 색깔

Thank you.

Genxword 1.0.9 and version 0.95 in terminal and genxwordt-gtk version python and python3 makes a grid but does not save clues and keys.
Only version 0.55 works correctly.
Is there a way I can debug this to make the newer versions work?

Seems the 2.0.1 release was only released to pypi. On here, github, the most recent release is 2.0.0

I only noticed it because I wrote a gentoo ebuild that would download the sourcecode from github and when I changed it to 2.0.1, it couldn't find the sources.

Note: I fixed the ebuild I was working on by pointing it to the source code uploaded to pypi, so this is more an FYI than anything.

No errors/warnings provided upon entering an invalid output format
outputs that the following files were saved and below outputs a blank line because nothing was saved.
Should issue an error instead, imo.

$ genxword -o what words.list b
...
4 out of 4
Are you happy with this solution? [Y/n] y
The following files have been saved to your current working directory:

Getting this error when using python 3.7.4.

Hi riverrun,

Installing genxword on debian stretch with the command
pip3 install genxword
failed. The packages listed on https://github.com/riverrun/genxword#dependencies were all installed.
There is an additional package to be installed on debian stretch: gettext.
apt-get install gettext
After this, installation worked.