NAME

       qxw - create and publish crosswords

SYNOPSIS

       qxw [options] [file]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page briefly documents the qxw command.

       Qxw  is  a  program  that  can  help  you create and publish crosswords, from the simplest
       blocked grid 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  (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

       -?     Show  usage  summary  including  built-in alphabets, along with version and licence
              information.

       -d file
              Load specified dictionary at start-up. This option may be repeated to load multiple
              dictionaries.

       -a alphabet
              Load  specified  alphabet  at start-up. The list of built-in alphabets is output as
              part of the usage summary information.

       -b     Enable batch (non-interactive) mode.

       The program also accepts the standard GTK options, which only have effect  in  interactive
       mode.

       Exit  status  is  0  for  normal exit and 16 for a file format error, an internal error or
       other catastrophic failure. In addition, in non-interactive mode,  an  exit  status  of  4
       indicates that no solution was found to the problem specified.

SEE ALSO

       gtk-options(7).

       Further     documentation,    including    a    PDF    manual,    can    be    found    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).

                                          March 22, 2019                                   QXW(6)