Rainbow Latin Generator

• Rainbow Latin Generator
• Introduction
• Credits
• Usage
• Architecture
• Unit tests
• Development setup

Introduction

This software generates Latin-English dual-language documents. See main webpage:

• https://bolner.github.io/rainbow-latin-reader/index.html

Watch the introduction video on YouTube:

Credits

Rainbow Latin Reader was created by Tamas Bolner and published under the Apache License (Copyright 2024). It is based on the following 3 projects:

• Perseus Canonical Latin literature:
  • https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit
• Whitaker's WORDS
  • https://github.com/mk270/whitakers-words
• Lemmatized Latin texts by Thibault Clérice et al.:
  • https://github.com/lascivaroma/latin-lemmatized-texts/

Usage

• Inside the RainbowLatinReader directory: Copy the config.ini.template as config.ini and fill in the missing paths.
• Create the output directory that is specified as output.dir in the config file. (You can create an output folder inside the project directory, as that is already added to the .gitignore file.)
• Before you compile Whitaker's Words, change these settings:
  • File: src/support_utils/support_utils-developer_parameters.adb
  • Required settings:
    • Pause_In_Screen_Output => False,
    • Omit_Archaic => False
    • Omit_Uncommon => False
    • Minimize_Output => False
• Then after you compiled WORDS, execute Rainbow Latin Reader:

    cd RainbowLatinReader
    dotnet run

• The results will be generated in the output folder:

$ dotnet run
- 16:56:14 - Started. Max parallel threads: 44.
- 16:56:14 - Parsing canonical documents.
- 16:56:18 - Successfully parsed 68 Canonical documents. (Out of 336)
- 16:56:19 - Parsing lemmatized documents.
- 16:56:53 - Collecting Latin words for the dictionary lookups.
- 16:56:53 - Starting word lookups in Whitaker's Words.
- 16:56:59 - Done. Total unique Latin word count: 76533.
- 16:57:00 - There are 2 Canonical document pairs for which no lemmatized version exists.
- 16:57:00 - Generating pages.
- 16:57:23 - Generating index page.
- 16:57:23 - Completed. Total HTML pages generated: 381.
- 16:57:23 - Changed: 296, unchanged: 85.
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Architecture

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Unit tests

Running all unit tests:

cd unit_tests
dotnet test

Development setup

• VS Code (Microsoft)
• Plugins:
  • C# - Base language support for C# (Microsoft)
  • Handlebars (André Junges)