
	Skylendar 1.6.2

(C)opyright Christophe Gros <skylendar@yahoo.com>, 2000-2001-2002-2003-2004-2005-2006
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README file.

 Skylendar is a modern design astrology software, designed for the KDE 3.x
 desktop environment. Skylendar is free and released under the GPL license.

The current features of skylendar are the following ones:

* Modern design and interface, 100% internationalizable.
* Code written in C++.
* Fairly portable code.
* Data and Restrictions sets can be stored, modified and retrieved
  to/from a SQL database (Actually PostgreSQL 8.1 or more).
* Displays a detailed standard wheel chart with 1 or 2 data columns aside and
	an aspects table.
* Displays a Text List chart, with distance and speed for all the bodies.
* Text List charts can include a Midpoints list of the given data sets.
* Displays an aspects list beneath the standard wheel, sorted by influence or not.
* Local Horizon Chart.
* Syklendar can store into the DB the values and aspects of a subchart with the
  Extract & Save feature.
* Skylendar can scan along a time span for exact aspects occuring between moving and
	static (natal) rings, or between two moving rings (Dual chart), with respect to the
	chart subtype.
* Active lines. When you click on a chart line beginning with a '',
	the corresponding Dataset is created.
* Computes Transits, Directions, Progressions, Composites, and also add (adds an arbitrary angle)
	and mul (multiply by an arbitrary value) subcharts.
* Exotic objects such as Vulcan, Proserpine, etc... The data of those objects (including
	their names) can be modified in the seorbel.txt file.
* SKIF (Skylendar Interchange File) reading and writing.
* Decans, Solar, Lunar or Nodal houses subring.
* Siblings management.
* X Point.
* Planets Rank.
* Export chart into a .svg file.
* AAF<->SKIF data files conversion.
* Show Next/Previous Global and Local Eclipse Data on the Text List Chart.
* Objects and aspects values can be retrieved from a dcop interface.
* Aspects Array Chart.
* From now on, daylight saving time is given in hour:minute.

In order to get some help and description of skylendar, press the F1 key.

Skylendar uses the Swiss Ephemeris as the astrological calculation library. This library is *** NOT FREE *** for commercial use. Read its included license file for more info.


NEWSGROUP
From now on, a newgroup exists for the Skylendar users, see
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skylendar


NOTE ABOUT INSTALLATION

Skylendar of course uses the standard 'configure' installation
process. However, don't forget to set the '--prefix=' global path
declaration to the suitable KDE path value, i.e. for example 
'/usr' or '/opt/kde' . Don't forget to declare too your qt, KDE and devel
includes + libs paths. See 'configure --help' for more details.
Use qt 3.2.x or more, instead of qt 3.1.x.

Skylendar has been successfully compiled using gcc/g++ 4.1.1
coming out from the Mandriva 2007 distribution.

Before running skylendar for the first time, check if you have already installed a PostgreSQL client. Then run as root the script named 'installskydb'. This script is also used for updating the database structure, if needed.

The utility named 'skygrant' will allow you to grant or revoke an access to the skylendar database to the given user name. You *MUST* create an access to your current
user name, before logging in.

Synopsis: skygrant <user name>
      or: skygrant -d <user name>    in ordre to revoke the access


HINTS
 For an better use, you may want to change the short date format. You can do it with
 the KDE control center (kcontrol), in the accessibility menu. Try other default
 fonts if you don't like the general text appareance. Also try to remove the font
 hinting if your astrological glyphs are displayed with dimmed or absent parts.

NOTE ABOUT POSTGRESQL 8.1
 Postgresql 8.1 have an authentication system described in the /data/pg_hba.conf
 file into your pgsql directory, usually /var/lib/pgsql. In order to avoid
 problems during the installation, you should set the trust access mode for the local
 clients, even temporarily. Yet installskydb will do it for you.

	Christophe Gros, December 2006