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+NAME
+ dlu - Dictionary lookup utility
+
+SYNOPSIS
+ dlu (-l | dictionary word)
+
+DESCRIPTION
+ dlu looks up a selected word in a selected scanned dictionary.
+
+ dlu is configured via ~/.config/dlu/dlurc, a Python 3 file
+ which defines the functions:
+
+ list_dictionaries()
+ Returns a list of all dictionaries.
+
+ load_dictionary(dictionary : str)
+ Sets the fuction get() or a variable that get() reads
+ to identify which dictionary has been selected.
+
+ open_dictionary(file : str, page : int)
+ Opens the specified page in the specified file.
+
+ The default implementation opens atril(1), evince(1),
+ xpdf(1), or jfbview(1) to display the specified file
+ and page.
+
+ wordmod(word : str) -> str
+ Modifies and returns a word so that it can be used
+ to compare against known words in the dictionary.
+
+ The default implemention of this function covers the
+ word to lower case using Python's string class's
+ lower() function.
+
+ get() -> tuple
+ Returns a 3-tuple containing, in order: the filename
+ of the scanned dictionary, a list of the last word on
+ each page, and a int-to-int function that maps the
+ index of a word, in the list in the second element of
+ the returned tuple, to a page in the dictionary.
+
+OPTIONS
+ -l Print a list of all dictionaries.
+
+FILES
+ ~/.config/dlu/dlurc
+ The configuration file.