A Arensus Crossword Construction File Format

This document describes the file format used by Arensus Crossword Puzzles Compiler v0.4.6. The file is a binary file and should not be handled like text-files. The file format can store the following crossword puzzle styles.


American Style Puzzle Classic american-style crossword puzzles where the blocks are placed symmetric. The words are either across or down.
Figure: American-Style crossword puzzle.

Swedish Style Puzzle Swedish-style crossword puzzles where the clues are in squares and the direction of words are indicated by arrows.
Figure: Swedish-Style Crossword Puzzle.


Barred Puzzle Use bars or blocks to separate words instead of blocks.
Figure: Barred Crossword Puzzle.


Piped Crossword Puzzle Use different pipes to make more challenging puzzles.
Figure:Piped Crossword Puzzle.


Mixed Style Crossword Puzzle Create the crossword puzzle you want. Use clues in squares, bars or blocks at the same time. Even use pipes to indicate a change of direction of a word.
Figure: Mixed Style Crossword Puzzle.

User defined word-breaking.
User predefined word wrapping. For clue "Abk.: Palästinenserbewegung" the user can specify conditional word-breaking positions as "Abk.: Paläs\-tinen\-ser\-be\-we\-gung"
Figure: Conditional word wrapping.