This is the readme.txt for Conjugue v.3.0.
It contains brief information of the following items.

1. The purpose of Conjugue
2. Installation notes
3. Conjugue is shareware
4. Distribution issues
5. Contact information


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1. Purpose of Conjugue
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1.1. TWENTY LANGUAGES IN YOUR HANDS

Conjugue is linguistic software, that helps in verb grammar.
It is designed for students of foreign languages to help with
the verb inflections. The languages available are the following:

- Romance languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, 
  Romanian, Galician, Catalan & Occitan.
- Germanic languages: English, Swedish, German, Dutch, 
  Norwegian & Danish.
- Ugric languages: Finnish & Setu.
- Extinct languages: Latin, Gothic, Old English & Middle High-German


1.2. CONJUGATIONS

Conjugue forms the inflections based on the given infinitive.
In addition to this, Conjugue is able to convert any verbal 
form to an infinitive.


1.3. CLEAR COLOR CODES

There are certain color in the verb color tables that help to
see at once some special features of the verb forms:

  - BLACK is used to show regular verb forms
  - RED indicates, the form is irregular
  - BLUE indicates that there are some phonetic or 
    ortographic changes in the form.
  - MAGENTA indicates that the verb is either obsolete
    or a regionalism
  - GREY indicates that the verbal form doesn't exist.
    

1.4. AND MUCH MORE

+ Conjugue shows besides the current verb's inflections
  a list with all verbs conjugated in the same manner.
+ Many verbs include extra information, which further
  explains them.
+ Many verbs include translations into the equivalents
  in other languages.
+ The availability of extinct languages helps in getting 
  knowledge of ancient verbal forms.
+ Maps show, where the language is/were spoken.
+ Animation(s) shows further information.


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2. Installation of Conjugue
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To install Conjugue, simply run conjug30.exe

There are three installation types:
a) Standard
b) Minimum
c) Custom

Normally you can choose Standard installation. You will get 
most features of Conjugue installed. Standard installation
needs 10.7 MB of hard disk storage.

If you don't have enough space on the hard disk for standard
installation, you may choose Compact installation. In this 
case, you don't get all languages in use. Compact installation
needs 5.5 MB of hard disk storage.

Choosing custom installation, you can easily click and choose
the degree of functionality desired. Using this feature, you
can also have the Conjugue screen saver to be installed!
Depending on the chosen installation options, Conjugue
requires 4.0-16.6 MB of hard disk storage.


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3. Conjugue is shareware
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The start-up screen of Conjugue reminds that Conjugue is 
shareware.

You can use Conjugue in 30 days. After that you have to
either stop from using it or purchase the product.

More info: http://www.kolumbus.fi/toti/register.htm


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4. Distribution issues
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You are allowed to distribute Conjugue in any electronic
format on any media. In case of redistribution, following
rules have to be applied:

1.  Conjugue must be distributed either
      a) as conjug30.zip (Simtel archive package) or
      b) as conjug30.exe (Self-extracting package)

2.  The Author (Erik Lindberg) and Conjugue homepage
    ( http://www.puterweb.com/conjugue ) must be
    mentioned.

3.  The Author must be notified about this: 
    Email: toti@kolumbus.fi 


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5. Contact information
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Conjugue home page is located at:

http://www.puterweb.com/conjugue

Conjugue author can be contacted by email: toti@kolumbus.fi