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Vocab Vault

Vocab Vault is a port of Open Words TS TypeScript code to Rust for future maintenance and improvement.

Find the original Whitaker's Words written in Ada at https://github.com/dsanson/Words, thoughtfully documented and maintained by dsanson. More information about William Whitaker and the Words program is available there.

CLI Usage Guide

The CLI is designed to provide translation functionality between English and Latin, using the Whitaker's Words Dictionary.

Installation

From Source

To install and build from source, you must have Rust installed. Then, run the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/cqb13/vocab-vault.git
$ cd vocab-vault
$ cargo build --release
$ cargo run --release -- [command] [arguments]
# to add to path
$ cargo install --path .

From Binary

To install from a binary, download the latest release from the releases page

$ cd [download directory]
$ vocab-vault [command] [arguments]

Website

You can also use the website to translate text.

Note: The website is currently using the original TypeScript code, not the Rust code.

Usage

  vocab-vault [COMMAND] [OPTIONS]

Commands

  transEng
      Translate english to latin
                                <WORDS>      The words to translate
      -m           --max        <MAX>        The maximum number of translations per definition (default: 6)
      -s           --sort       <>           Sort the output by word frequency
      -p           --pretty     <>           Prints the output in a pretty format
      -d           --detailed   <>           Adds more information to the pretty output
  transLat
      Translate latin to english
                                <WORDS>      The words to translate
      -m           --max        <MAX>        The maximum number of translations per definition (default: 6)
      -s           --sort       <>           Sort the output by word frequency
      -p           --pretty     <>           Prints the output in a pretty format
      -d           --detailed   <>           Adds more information to the pretty output
      -t           --tricks     <>           Will attempt to use various tricks to find the translation
  getList
      Gets a list of words based on the options provided
                                <TYPE>       The type of words to get. Options: english, latin, inflections, not_packons, packons, prefixes, stems, suffixes, tackons, tickons, unique_latin
      -p           --pos        <POS>        The part of speeches to include, separated by commas
      -m           --max        <MAX>        The maximum word length
      -n           --min        <MIN>        The minimum word length
      -e           --exact      <EXACT>      The exact word length
      -a           --amount     <AMOUNT>     The amount of words to get
      -r           --random     <>           Get words from a random position
      -d           --display    <>           Will display as json
      -t           --to         <TO>         The file to export the results to
  help
      Helps you
                                <COMMAND>    A command to help with
  tui
      Starts the tui (.help for info)

Example Usage

Help:

$ vocab_vault help

$ vocab_vault help transEng

Translate English to Latin with 2 options per translation which are sorted by frequency:

$ vocab_vault transEng "why" -m 2 -s

Translate Latin to English with tricks and pretty output:

$ vocab_vault transLat "cur sum hic" -t -p

Get a list of Latin words with a specific part of speech and save it to a file:

$ vocab_vault getList "latin" -p noun,verb -m 6 -n 3 -t "latin_words.json"