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.TH Artha 1 "Jan 14, 2009" "Artha" "Artha \- The Open Thesaurus"
.SH NAME
Artha \- An open cross-platform thesaurus based on WordNet  
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBArtha\fP is an open thesaurus based on the WordNet database, 
created with simplicity in mind. Once executed, Artha stays on the 
system tray, monitoring for a set global hot key combination. When 
the user selects some text in any window, and presses this set hot 
key combo, Artha looks up WordNet for the selected text and pops-up 
with the results.
.PP
Should the user prefer system tray notifications (balloon tips), 
rather than the application popping up with the definitions, it can 
be done by enabling Notifications.  This is done by right-clicking 
on Artha's system tray icon, and tick off the 'Notifications' 
check box in the menu. When notifications are enabled, and the user 
selects text in a window and presses the hot key combo, Artha takes 
the prime definition of that term from WordNet and shows that 
definition as a system tray notification.
.PP
The hot key combo selection is done by Artha is in this Order:
.IP
	* Ctrl + Alt + W
.IP
	* Ctrl + Alt + A
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	* Ctrl + Alt + T
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	* Ctrl + Alt + Q
.IP
I.e. when executed, Artha tries to register a hot key for it. First 
it tries to register Ctrl + Alt + W, if it is already occupied by 
some other application, it tries for Ctrl + Alt + A, likewise until 
it succeeds. If all the above listed 4 combinations are taken up 
by other applications, Artha disables its hot key call and 
notifications features. Hence its highly recommened that the user 
keeps atleast one of these combinations free, so as to use all the 
features of Artha effectively.
.PP
Apart from showing the definitions of a searched string with usage 
examples, Artha also shows a word's relatives like Synonyms, 
Antonyms, Attributes, Derivatives, Domain/Domain Terms, Causes, 
Entails, Similar Terms, Hypernyms (is a kind of), Hyponyms (Kinds), 
Holonyms (is a part of), Meronyms (Parts) and Pertainyms (Related 
noun/verb).
.PP
Artha has 2 modes. Simple and Detailed. Artha enters Detailed mode 
when the 'Detailed' button in the toolbar is pressed. When toggled 
again, it returns back to simple mode. For relatives like Antonyms, 
Pertainyms, Hypernyms, Hyponyms, Holonyms and Meronyms, where more 
than one level of relatives may be present, is showed in a tree 
fashion, in detailed mode. If in simple mode, only one level of 
relatives are shown even when more levels are present. E.g. 'rich' 
has 'poor' and 'lean' alone as antonyms in simple mode. While in 
detailed mode, 'poor' further infers broke, skint, etc. which are 
shown as children of 'poor'.
.SH AVAILABILITY
Artha has a World Wide Web site at
\fBhttp://artha.sourceforge.net\fP.  From this web site users can 
know more about the Artha project and also download its source and 
binary distributions for various distros.
.SH AUTHOR
Sundaram Ramaswamy <legends2k@yahoo.com>