Paprika is a language, and software, for generating semi-random arrangements of words - like computer-driven mad-libs. This can be useful for generating game dialogue, tweet bots, and flavour text which have spice and variety! Paprika (the software) takes a "request" and uses it to execute some "grammar" (grammars are the files which make up your random options). Better to show than to tell:

# Here's a grammar file. Hashes denote comments (lines the software should not read)
# Below is a "category", denoted with an asterisk:
* animal
cow
horse
mouse

* nice
lovely
delightful
amazing

If this grammar was loaded, the user could enter the following input to get the following example output:

Check out this [animal]
-> "Check out this cow"

My [animal] is [nice]
-> "My mouse is delightful"

If you run each command again, the output can be different, because the bits in [square brackets] are randomised.

The language has many more features than this, which you can explore at https://paprika.me.uk

Paprika.Net is the core functionality of the Paprika engine. It can load, parse, execute, and validate grammars and queries. It is well unit-tested in Paprika.NetTests. This project is available as a NuGet package as SteGriff.Paprika.Net.

Paprika.Net.Console is basically a desktop client for Paprika. It's a command line app which calls upon Paprika.Net, letting you play with and iterate your grammar files rapidly.

WIP

Install the NuGet package using Install-Package SteGriff.Paprika.Net

• Instantiate a Core object using var engine = new SteGriff.Paprika.Net.Core();
• Load a grammar with engine...
• Parse a request with engine.Parse("My query is [cool/nice]")
• You can select specific values you want to use (instead of random ones) using an overload of engine.Parse...

By default, the grammars are chosen from the paprika-grammar submodule (../../paprika-grammar/) but you can override this in App.config like so:

<appSettings>
	<add key="GrammarRoot" value="C:/path/to/my/paprika-grammar/" />
</appSettings>

The specified directory must contain an index.grammar file.

• Build in Release Mode
• Publish from VS, not Nuspec
• Go to nuget.org Upload and upload the new package from the Build directory