The cardwords user's guide

Abstract

cardwords is a card game for your computer running Gnu/Linux. You get cards showing characters and you can form words with them (arranged as crosswords) on the card-table. This document describes how to compile, install, customize and run the game. Please note that the game is playable but still very alpha.

Copyright Notice

Copyright © 1998 1999 2000 2001 Tobias Peters

The cardwords program including this guide is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

Contents

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Getting, compiling and installing cardwords
• 3 Customizing cardwords
  • 3.1 The charset file
  • 3.2 The dictionary files
  • 3.3 The card set file
  • 3.4 The card-table file
  • 3.5 The bonus file
• 4 Running cardwords
  • 4.1 The option settings
  • 4.2 Playing the game