Sympathy Crossword Construction helps you create professional quality crosswords for publication in print form or on the web. It has a wealth of construction and filling features to aid the compiler. Its flexibility in grid drawing and puzzle layout will appeal to crossword publishers and customers alike.
Sympathy supports US style fully checked, diagramless, blocked, Italian style and barred grid puzzles. Start the crossword based on a stock grid or create a bespoke grid. Fill the grid using any of four different techniques.
Check the construction and fill quality using the statistics. Enter the clues and their explanations, using the Wordplay Wizard for help with cryptic clues. Print complete puzzles directly or export them in a variety of formats for publication. Create HTML for the crossword, with the grid in HTML or bitmap formats such as JPEG and PNG.
Here are some key features of "Sympathy - Crossword Construction":
· You can use the mouse or the keyboard to change the grid
· There are 10 grid symmetry types to choose from
· You can create grids up to 100 rows by 100 columns
· Editing automatically preserves the symmetry of the grid
· All grid dimensions, colors and fonts are configurable
· Thematic answers can be highlighted using fonts, text colors or background shading
· Blocks can be completely filled or Italian Style
· Unused cells can be left empty to make "holes" or create Irregular grid outlines
· Numbering can be omitted or manually assigned to any of the four cell corners
· Cells can contain more than one answer letter
· Cell edges can be omitted, given various dash styles, or forced to be rules or bars
· Answer letters can optionally be shown in the blank grid
· Override the conventional clue numbering
· Customize the overall character and paragraph formatting of clues
· Change font, type size and emphasis of characters within clues
· Choose the style of answer enumerations
· Control the puzzle and solution layouts using the WYSIWYG editor
· Define your own fields such as the puzzle title, compiler and preamble
· Design layout templates to reuse in new crosswords
· Printing the puzzle or solution directly to the computer's printer
· Exporting in word processor format (RTF) for inclusion in another publication
· Exporting as HTML for web publication in a printable form
· Exporting grid images in bitmap formats such as JPEG and PNG
· Very fast automatic creation of up to 10 unique fills
· Interactive filling for precise word selection
· Filling individual words from a list or by cycling through the possibilities
· Filling a subset of the grid
· Filling from up to 8 dictionaries in a priority order
· Undesirable words can be temporarily or permanently removed
· Duplicate words can be allowed or suppressed
· Reflection of the grid in the main diagonal
· Rotation of the grid through 90 degrees
· Grid resizing
· The Core English list includes 67,000 common words (with and without inflections)
· The Edited English list includes 264,372 words (with and without inflections)
· The USWordNet list includes American English vocabulary with around 175,000 words and phrases
· The USEnable list includes American English vocabulary with around 200,000 words with inflections
· The integrated dictionary/thesaurus has definitions for 190,000 entries
· Citations indicate dictionaries where a further 130,000 entries are found
· You can also look up words using Internet search engines, dictionaries and encyclopedias
· Anagramming
· Reversal
· Charades
· Container and Contents
· Head, Tail, Middle and Ends Deletion
· Alternating letters
· Substitution
· Comprehensive grid statistics including average answer length and checking level
· Lists of answers that have breached configurable checking rules
· Frequency of use of different letters of the alphabet
· Analysis of dictionary use during filling
· Frequency of use of different answer lengths
Requirements:
· OS: Windows XP/Vista
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Exporting and importing files in the ipuz open standard format.
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