A more complex crossword puzzle

[Remo Dentato]

Here is a draft of another crossword puzzle in lojban. This time is a
"proper" crossword puzzle all hand made by me :)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7681579/kuc_01.pdf

I spent the last couple of days trying to figure out how to easily
publish a crossword online and didn't find anything that I liked so,
for now, it's just a PDF that has to be printed to be completed.

I have considered so far the following options:

create a PDF form
create an ad hoc javascript version
buy a crossword editor (that would not insist on uppercase!)
release as an OpenOffice spreadsheet
release as a Google Document spreadsheet

each of this will have its pros and cons.

I would be very happy to hear any other suggestion.

Of course the same goes for clues, beside the errors, I'm sure not
everyone will agree with them :)

remod.

[Ali Sajid Imami]

You could use a LaTeX typesetter for this maybe? There's an extension
for crosswords. :)

[Marek Rogalski]

Could you also post filled version? :)

[Remo Dentato]

I'll post the solution soon. In the meantime I've created an online
version here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7681579/kuc_01.htm

The button "lo selti'i" will give a suggestion letter by letter so it
is almost as having the printed solution :).

Hope you enjoy!

remod

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[Pierre Abbat]

On Saturday 02 April 2011 05:28:28 Remo Dentato wrote:
> Here is a draft of another crossword puzzle in lojban. This time is a
> "proper" crossword puzzle all hand made by me :)
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7681579/kuc_01.pdf

mi prinygau gi'e caca'o facki le danfu le namselkei .i pe'i lu zo catlu li'u
basti lu lo catlu li'u le remoi sraji

mu'omi'e .pier.
--
Jews use a lunisolar calendar; Muslims use a solely lunar calendar.

[ianek]

coi
Some time ago I've created a javascript engine for crossword! An old
version is on http://hetmanskie.pl/index.php?page=krzyzowki (in
Polish) and there is a new, better version on my computer. I could
adjust it for Lojban (lowercase letters).
mu'o mi'e ianek

On 2 Kwi, 11:28, Remo Dentato <rdent...@gmail.com> wrote:

[rden...@gmail.com]

It seems very nice! I've used "JCross" but yours look better.

Probably it would be worthwhile if we get more crossword puzzles.

remod

[ianek]

http://sg.0x04.net/~janek/kucyvla.html

Just a quick hack :) Enjoy!
Arrow keys work, backspace/delete should work on major browsers. You
will figure out some other things, I guess :)

mu'o mi'e ianek

On 3 Kwi, 21:30, rdent...@gmail.com wrote:
> It seems very nice! I've used "JCross" but yours look better.
>
> Probably it would be worthwhile if we get more crossword puzzles.
>
> remod
>

[Luke Bergen]

Some comments.  (POSSIBLE SPOILERS WARNING)

In the web version that you made, remod, for some reason it's not accepting the last letter of 22-down/36-across.

17 across has me puzzled.  I finally just clicked selti'i until it gives me the answer and I still don't get it.  are you saying that {puza lo nu sanji kei da cu ganse ko'a}?  ganse ma?

Still working through it.  I'll let you know if I find anything else.

[Robert LeChevalier]

Remo Dentato wrote:
> Here is a draft of another crossword puzzle in lojban. This time is a
> "proper" crossword puzzle all hand made by me :)
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7681579/kuc_01.pdf
>
> I spent the last couple of days trying to figure out how to easily
> publish a crossword online and didn't find anything that I liked so,
> for now, it's just a PDF that has to be printed to be completed.
>
> I have considered so far the following options:
>
> create a PDF form
> create an ad hoc javascript version
> buy a crossword editor (that would not insist on uppercase!)
> release as an OpenOffice spreadsheet
> release as a Google Document spreadsheet
>
> each of this will have its pros and cons.
>
> I would be very happy to hear any other suggestion.

The standard form for crossword puzzle distribution these days is Across
(lite) format, file suffix .puz

You do not need to buy any software to create or to use this format.
The free downloadable application Across Lite will convert a specially
formatted text file into a .puz binary file that anyone can use with the
program.

http://www.litsoft.com/across/docs/AcrossTextFormat.pdf

describes the text format

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/litsoft.html
is one of several places to download AcrossLite.

http://code.google.com/p/puz/
has some software libraries for working with the .puz format in C and
perhaps other languages

lojbab

[Michael Turniansky]

Really nice puzzle. I am surprised it's even possible in lojban. I
appreciate that you are using symmetry (although you violate American
crossword conventions by having uncrossed squares) I'm about halfway
through it, right now. A couple of comments so far:

36 has a typo -- it should be "selspaji"
17d clue doesn't really make sense. How is it "finti"? Perhaps you
meant "lidne"?
25 was the only one I've needed a clue on so far. I didn't get it
only having to fill in the uncorssed letter.

--gejyspa