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Finally, a list of morphological exercises and save it in a
file for later use, by the command <tt>translation_list = tl</tt>
file for later use, by the command <tt>morpho_list = ml</tt>
<pre>
> translation_list -number=25 PaleolithicEng PaleolithicIta
> morpho_list -number=25 -cat=V
</pre>
The number flag gives the number of sentences generated.
The number flag gives the number of exercises generated.

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</p><h2>News</h2>
<i>May 17, 2005</i>. Version 2.2 released. See
<a href="doc/gf2.2-highlights.html">highlights</a>.
Download from
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<a href="lib/resource/doc/gf-resource.html">Resource grammar library</a>:
basic structures of ten languages
(Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish).
(Danish, English, Finnish, French, German,
Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish).
Resource grammars can be used as libraries for writing GF
applications,
but they can also be useful for language training.
<h2>Executable programs</h2>
GF is available precompiled for
GF is available for
several platforms: Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Sun OS.
For more information, see the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132285">Download Page</a> (at SourceForge).
To get GF, go to the
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132285">Download Page</a>
(at SourceForge).
<h2>Quick start</h2>
When you have downloaded and installed GF:
<ol>
<li> Copy the files
<a href="doc/tutorial/Paleolithic.gf"><tt>Paleolithic.gf</tt></a>,
<a href="doc/tutorial/PaleolithicEng.gf"><tt>PaleolithicEng.gf</tt></a>, and
<a href="doc/tutorial/PaleolithicIta.gf"><tt>PaleolithicIta.gf</tt></a>.
<li> Start GF with the command
<pre>
gf PaleolithicIta.gf PaleolithicEng.gf
</pre>
<li> <b>Translation</b>. Try your first translation by giving the GF command
<pre>
t PaleolithicEng PaleolithicIta "the boy eats the snake"
</pre>
<li> <b>Generation</b>. Random-generate sentences in two languages:
<pre>
gr | l -multi
</pre>
<li> <b>Grammar development</b>. Add words to the <tt>Paleolithic</tt>
grammars and try the above commands again.
</ol>
To lear more on grammar development (and other aspects), go to the
<a href="doc/tutorial/01-gf-tutorial2.html">New Grammarian's Tutorial</a>.
<p>
GF grammars can be embedded in Java programs by using the
<a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/gf/gf-java.html">Embedded GF Interpreter</a>.
<h2>Source code</h2>
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</p><p>
The <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132285">Download Page</a> (at SourceForge) gives links to source and binary packages, as well as
The <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132285">
Download Page</a> (at SourceForge) gives links to source and binary packages, as well as
information on compiler requirements.
<p>
For Java programmers: GF grammars can be embedded in Java programs by using the
<a href="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/gf/gf-java.html">
Embedded GF Interpreter</a>.
</p><h2>Documents</h2>