Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: akkdict
Version: 0.1.0
Summary: simple utility for looking up Akkadian words in the CAD
Home-page: https://github.com/ninjaaron/akkdict
Author: Aaron Christianson
Author-email: ninjaaron@gmail.com
License: BSD
Description: akkdict
        =======
        ``akkdict`` is a simple command-line python program that takes an
        akkadian word as input and opens pdfs of several akkadian dictionaries
        to the right page (or somewhere thereabouts). It works well for some of
        the illicit pdfs of *The Concise Dictionary of Akkdian* (CDA) and *Das
        Akkadishes Handwörterbuch* (AHw) floating around, if you happen to have
        them. It also will get you within 100 pages in the *Assyrian Dictionary
        of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago* (CAD), which can
        be freely downloaded from
        http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/assyrian-dictionary-oriental-institute-university-chicago-cad
        (naturally, ``akkdict`` also has a helper script for this; see below).
        If you would like to contribute to expanding and improving the CAD index
        or any of the other indicies, we would be happy to pull from you! If you
        are a humanities major and using git is too hard, contact me!
        
        Installation
        ------------
        Install akkdict from PyPI with pip3! ``pip install akkdict`` If you
        don't have pip and are unmotivated to get it on your platform, you can
        download clone the source from github, enter the project directory and
        run ``python3 setup.py install``, which will probably require root, and
        you should just not do it. Just git pip.
        
        One thing to know is you must have a way to open a PDF to a specific
        page number from the command line. This is no problem on Linux. Just
        look at the man page for your favorite PDF reader. I hear talk that this
        is possible on OS X with AppleScript. There are also command line
        options for this in Acrobat Reader. I frankly don't even know if this
        package works at all on Windows, but I have my doubts. If someone who
        knows something about Windows wants to contribute, please do!
        
        *akkdict* requires some configuration. It will let you know about it.
        The default config file has comments which explain things.
        
        Usage
        -----
        Open a word in the configured dictionaries: ``akkdict šarru``
        
        Print the page number (and volume): ``akkdict -p šarru``
        
        Download the CAD into a local folder: ``akkdict --download-cad``
        
Keywords: Akkadian Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
Platform: UNKNOWN
