The files in this directory provide tools for conjugating the
Portuguese verbs.

- Conjugate.pm is a perl module with low-level tools (see manpage)
- conjug       is a perl program that conjugates verbs (see manpage)
- treinar      is a perl program that drills the user on conjugation.


Quick demo :

perl -e 'use Lingua::PT::Conjugate; print conjug("programar","perfeito")'

programar :
perf         programei programaste programou programamos programaram

See also : http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~etienne

Requisites :

   Perl 5.004 or greater. Maybe less will do.

   Perl Module : "treinar" require the Term::ReadLine and
                  Term::ReadKey modules. Term::ReadLine::Perl or
                  Term::ReadLine::Gnu are more friendly.

Installation :

gunzip  Lingua-PT-Conjugate-V.MM.tar.gz
tar xvf Lingua-PT-Conjugate-V.MM.tar
cd      Lingua-PT-Conjugate-V.MM
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install


MAN PAGES :

 conjug                : Progam conjugating Portuguese verbs.

 treinar               : Training at conjugation.

 Lingua::PT::Conjugate : Description of the algorithm.


BUG REPORTS:


Mail me at [email protected] about bug, patches and suggestions.


Copyright (c) 1997,1999 Etienne Grossmann All rights reserved. This
program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.


CREDITS:

Thanks to all people on usenet and here at ISR with whom I have
discussed about this module, who have provided advice on conjugation,
programming, on naming and on all relevant points.

Thanks to Lupe Christoph <[email protected]> from
[email protected] and to Miguel Marques
<[email protected]> for finding and fixing some bugs.