search

riverrun / genxword

Crossword generator written in Python.
GNU General Public License v3.0
170 stars 42 forks source link

Providing a pure text output option? #14

Open MQQ opened 5 years ago

MQQ commented 5 years ago

It is hard to get all the graphics libraries to work properly on different systems. For example, it really took me a while to install and configure pygobject3 and cairo on mac osx to just get it barely working.

On the other hand, the most needed is the crosswords themselves. I can simply use an Excel sheet to create my own styling as long as I can have the pure text console outputs. So it would be really good if there is an option to generate a pure text output without the need to import any graphics related libraries.

riverrun commented 5 years ago

At the moment, one option is to use the 0.2.3 release - see the releases page. However, this still requires python-cairo.

If I have the time, I would be happy to work on a separate pure text version, but I am not sure when I will have the time to work on that.