This package consists of two programs, minpair, a command-line program
written in C, and mpg, a graphical program written in Tcl. Either can be
used without the other. minpair will find minimal pairs involving substitutions,
and, optionally, indels and transpositions. mpg can be used as a graphical
user interface to minpair. However, it is also possible to use mpg without
minpair. mpg can find minimal pairs involving substitutions but currently
cannot handle indels and transpositions. mpg is slower than minpair but
fast enough as to be usable with lists of a few thousand words.

mpg is also able to find pairs of words that differ in two positions,
which minpair does not know how to do. This is useful when looking
for phonological rules. The maximum distance between the two positions
may be specified.

If you do not need minpair, you can just copy mpg.tcl to a suitable
location.

Minpair uses the GNU gettext package for localization, which may not
be available on some systems. The configuration system will compile
minpair without localization if it cannot find gettext.
Minpair will then run just as intended but for the fact
that all messages will be in English regardless of your locale.

The file ZuluMultigraphs is provided as an example of a multigraph file.
It contains the multigraphs used in the standard spelling of Zulu.

