Debian Edu Language packages

This package provides a client application to query a dictd server. The client-server protocol is TCP-based; the server may then be local or accessed through the network.

The DICT Development Group maintains several public servers which can be accessed from any machine connected to the Internet. The default configuration is to query one of these servers first. This may be changed in the configuration file /etc/dictd/dict.conf.

Queries may be customized by numerous command line options, including specifying the database(s) to be queried and the search strategy to be used.

This package also provides dictl, which allows using UTF-8 encoded dictionaries with terminals that do not support UTF-8.

A package to reorganize menu branches in order to get a structure easy to use for teachers and students.

Festival offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It includes a Scheme-based command interpreter.

Besides research into speech synthesis, festival is useful as a stand-alone speech synthesis program. It is capable of producing clearly understandable speech from text.

These fonts include hand writing simulation typographies, ancient Greek and Roman typographies, the institutional fonts for use by the regional government of Extremadura and some other elegant fonts. This is the list of the included fonts:

• Abecedario: Small children handwritten simulation
• Elegante: Elegant handwritten simulation font
• BABEL Unicode: specifically designed to type Latin, Ancient greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Runic, Ogham and Old English
• Alfa-Beta: Ancient Greek typography
• Emerita Latina: Roman typography
• API PHONÉTIQUE: Designed to phonetically transcript French texts
• IPA PHONETICS: Designed to phonetically transcript English texts
• Ellenike: Classical Greek encoding
• Jara: Institutional font used by the regional government of Extremadura
• Quercus: Institutional font used by the regional government of Extremadura

These fonts have been developed, donated and GPL licensed by Juan José Marcos for their use in the gnuLinEx project.

Doulos is very similar to Times/Times New Roman, but only has a single face - regular. It is intended for use alongside other Times-like fonts where a range of styles (italic, bold) are not needed.

The goal for this product was to provide a single Unicode-based font family that would contain a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic needs. In addition, there is provision for other characters and symbols useful to linguists. This font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex typographic issues, such as the need to position arbitrary combinations of base glyphs and diacritics optimally.

One font from this typeface family is included in this release:

• Doulos SIL Regular

Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.

The full font sources are publicly available at https://github.com/silnrsi/font-doulos An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.

The goal for the Doulos SIL font is to provide a single Unicode-based font family that would contain a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic needs. In addition, there is provision for other characters and symbols useful to linguists.

The Doulos SIL font contains near-complete coverage of all the characters defined in Unicode 7.0 for Latin and Cyrillic. In total, over 3,600 glyphs are included, providing support for over 2,300 characters as well as a large number of ligated character sequences (e.g., contour tone letters used in phonetic transcription of tonal languages).

In addition, alternately-designed glyphs are also provided for a number of characters for use in particular contexts. The glyphs are accessible in applications that support advanced font technologies, specifically the Graphite or OpenType technologies. These technologies are also utilized to provide automatic positioning of diacritics relative to base characters in arbitrary base+diacritic combinations (including combinations involving multiple diacritics).

Doulos SIL is a TrueType font with "smart font" capabilities added using the Graphite, OpenType(r), and AAT font technologies. This means that complex typographic issues such as formation of ligatures or automatic positioning of diacritics relative to base characters in arbitrary base+diacritic combinations (including combinations involving multiple diacritics) are handled by the font. In addition, alternately-designed glyphs are also provided for a number of characters for use in particular contexts. These capabilities are only available if you are running an application that provides an adequate level of support for one of these smart font technologies.

This is the compact version with tighter line spacing.

KAnagram is a game where a random word is shown with its letters scrambled. To win, the player must rearrange the letters into the correct order.

This package is part of the KDE education module

KHangMan is the well-known Hangman game, aimed towards children aged 6 and above.

It picks a random word which the player must reveal by guessing if it contains certain letters. As the player guesses letters, the word is gradually revealed, but 10 wrong guesses will end the game.

This package is part of the KDE education module.

Kiten is a collection of Japanese reference tools and study aids for KDE, including a Japanese/English dictionary, Kanji dictionary, and Kanji quiz.

This package is part of the KDE education module.

Klavaro is a simple tutor to teach correct typing, almost independently of language and very flexible regarding to new or unknown keyboard layouts.

Its key features are:

• Internationalization
• Ready to use keyboard layouts
• Keyboard layout editor
• Basic course
• Adaptability, velocity and fluidness exercises
• Progress charts.

KLettres is an aid for learning how to read and pronounce the alphabet of a foreign language.

Seven languages are currently available: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Italian and Slovak.

This package is part of the KDE education module.

KTouch is an aid for learning how to type with speed and accuracy. It provides a sample text to type and indicates which fingers should be used for each key.

A collection of lessons are included for a wide range of different languages and keyboard layouts, and typing statistics are used to dynamically adjust the level of difficulty.

This package is part of the KDE education module.

KWordQuiz is a general purpose flashcard program, typically used for vocabulary training.

KWordQuiz can open vocabulary data in various formats, including the kvtml format used by KDE programs such as Parley, the WQL format used by WordQuiz for Windows, the xml.gz format used by Pauker, and CSV text.

This package is part of the KDE education module.

Parley is a utility to help train vocabulary when learning a foreign language. It is intended as a replacement for flash cards.

This package is part of the KDE education module.

Typespeed is a game in which words fly across your screen. Your task is to zap the words by typing them before they cross the screen. If too many words get by you, the game is over.

WordNet(C) is an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.

WordNet was developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University under the direction of Professor George A. Miller (Principal Investigator).

WordNet is considered to be the most important resource available to researchers in computational linguistics, text analysis, and many related areas.

Binary and manpages of WordNet as well as general manpages.

This package includes some fonts of the International Phonetic Alphabet. You will need these fonts if you plan to view, print, or author documents using the International Phonetic Alphabet. IPA is used, for instance, in dictionaries to represent pronunciations in a non-language-specific way.

The fonts are for use with the X Window System.

TIPA is a system for processing IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols in LaTeX written by Fukui Rei. TIPA stands for either TeX IPA or Tokyo IPA and derived from the tsipa package, made in 1992 by Kobayashi Hajime, Fukui Rei and Shirakawa Shun.

This package contains type 1 version of the TIPA fonts for the X Window system. It contains the pfb and afm files. The installed X font has the silipa encoding (see http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa.html).

This package contains a interactive program (conjugue) capable of conjugating Portuguese verbs, as spoken in Brazil. The upstream version is numbered 1.0, but as it is distributed together with the Ispell dictionary for Brazilian Portuguese, it has the same version number as the ibrazilian package for Debian.

Collatinus can be used to lemmatise latin texts, i.e. extract words and make a lexicon which indicates for each word its canonic form, and how the form actually found in the text was derived from it, for instance by declining it. Example : rosam gives : rosa-rosae -- acc. sing. Collatinus provides a nice graphic front-end to each operation.

Collatinus-nouus (stands for Collatinus, new generation) replaces every previous version of Collatinus.

This package provides a documentation in HTML format.

Verbiste is a program that gives the complete conjugation for French and Italian verbs. The knowledge base contains over 6800 verbs.

This is a transitional package that simply installs verbiste-gtk. It can be safely removed.