Crosswords
Crossword generator tool
Features
- Generates a crossword puzzle that contains as many given words as possible
- Fills up empty space with words from a dictionary
Prerequisites
- Clean
- LaTeX
- The crossword LaTeX package for
cwpuzzle.dtx - A dictionary for your language (one word per line, for Dutch you can have a look at OpenTaal)
Installation
$ clm -I $CLEAN_HOME/lib/ArgEnv -I $CLEAN_HOME/lib/MersenneTwister -b -h 100M Crosswords -o cwgen
Usage example
Words are read from stdin, ended with an empty line or EOF, and of course
from the dictionary installed. The example above was created with the words
newspaper, crossword, english and puzzling.
$ ./cwgen [dictionary.txt] < words.txt > cw-gen.tex
$ pdflatex cw.tex
Remove \PuzzleSolution[true] from cw.tex to not show the solution in the
result.
Author & License
Copyright © 2016 Camil Staps. Licensed under MIT, See the
LICENSE file for details.
Acknowledgements
dict/wordsEn.txt: compiled from SIL International (only words with 3-10 characters were kept)