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   From: "Mike Easter"    
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   Subject: Re: Ubuntu 6.10 & New York Times crossword puzzle   
   Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 20:15:22 -0800   
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   Mike Easter wrote:   
   > Franz Fripplfrappl wrote:   
   >> Anyone know how to make the New York Times   
   >> crossword work?   
      
   > Then, besides the Across Lite stuff, there's xword which is up to v. 1   
   > now.   
      
   Here's the xword site's front page http://x-word.org/  -- Xword is GTK   
   program for doing crossword puzzles. It is similar to the Across Lite   
   program for Windows, and it can read and write puzzles in the Across   
   Lite file format.   
      
   .... which GTK/Python seems like a better strategy than the elf motif   
   gig.   
      
   // Xword is written in Python. To use Xword, you need PyGTK 2.0.   
   Nowadays, most Linux distributions come with some version of this   
   library. You also need Python and GTK. If you want to print puzzles, you   
   need the GNOME print libraries installed along with their Python   
   bindings. However, these libraries are optional. //   
      
      
   // Download Xword to whatever location you like. Extract it using any   
   archive extraction tool. For example, from the command line run tar zxf   
   xword-1.0.tar.gz, which will create a directory xword-1.0. The xword   
   executable is located in this directory. Xword does not need to go in   
   any particular location, although all the files in the xword-1.0   
   directory must stay together (i.e., you cannot just copy the xword   
   executable to /usr/bin). //   
      
   --    
   Mike Easter   
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