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 etienne@isr.ist.utl.pt 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 <lupe@lupe-christoph.de> from
cpan-testers@perl.org and to Miguel Marques
<marques@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> for finding and fixing some bugs.