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0001 INTRODUCTION 0002 This font provides an easy way to view stroke order diagrams for over 6350 0003 kanji, 183 kana symbols, the Latin characters and quite a few other symbols. 0004 I have also used it as a dumping ground for my own character creation doodles. 0005 0006 My hope is that this font will assist people who are learning kanji. I 0007 also hope it will help teachers of Japanese in the preparation of 0008 classroom material. Beware that Japanese stroke order can differ from the 0009 stroke order used in other languages that use Chinese characters. 0010 0011 HOW TO INSTALL AND USE THIS FONT 0012 Install this font as you would any other TrueType font. In the parts of your 0013 document where you want the kanji to be annotated with stroke order numbers 0014 simply set your document's font to KanjiStrokeOrders. You will need to set 0015 the size of the font to be large to allow the stroke order numbers to 0016 show up: 100pt seems to be the minimum usable size. 0017 0018 For what it's worth in this context, KanjiStrokeOrders provides small capitals. 0019 Access them using the smcp tag. For example, in XeTeX use 0020 0021 \font\smallcaps="KanjiStrokeOrders:+smcp" at 10pt 0022 0023 I have had one report from the field of Mac OS X 10.4.11 complaining about 0024 missing OpenType data, although this does not happen with OS X 10.5. I am 0025 told that KSOF works fine on OS X 10.4.11 if you ignore the warning, so it's 0026 nothing to worry about. Thanks are due to Phil for reporting this. 0027 0028 LICENCE 0029 This font may be freely distributed under the terms of the BSD-style licence 0030 included in LICENSES/BSD-3-Clause.txt. 0031 0032 The kanji stroke order diagrams remain under the copyright of Ulrich Apel 0033 and the AAAA and Wadoku projects. If you find this font useful then please 0034 consider making a donation to the Wadoku project by pointing your Web 0035 browser at http://www.wadoku.de and clicking on "Spenden". 0036 0037 The small number of characters in this font that were inexpertly knocked up 0038 by the author. 0039 0040 INTEGRATION WITH JWPCE 0041 This font enables you to view kanji stroke orders in JWPce. Set the "Big 0042 Kanji Font" to KanjiStrokeOrders in the Options dialog. Some kanji stroke order 0043 diagrams might show a different stroke count to that reported by JWPce in the 0044 same kanji information window. This is because some kanji have more than one 0045 valid stroke count. 0046 0047 TECHNICAL INFORMATION 0048 I created this font by using the Batik library to convert the AAAA and 0049 Wadoku projects' SVG files into high-resolution PNG images. I turned 0050 these into a font using Fontforge. I then filled in some missing characters 0051 using another font I have created called Choumei. Previously I filled in the 0052 gaps with the public domain font Tuffy but I no longer use those glyphs. 0053 0054 EXAMPLES 0055 Included in this archive are two contrived examples of the use of this font 0056 with popular office software. They are in PDF format. 0057 0058 CORRECTIONS 0059 As the changelog below shows, users have found quite a few errors in the 0060 stroke orders diagrams. There are probably more. If you find any errors please 0061 let me know by email: mail |at| nihilist (dot) org (dot) uk. You can expect 0062 your changes to appear within a few weeks and I can email you to let you know 0063 that the new version is available. When reporting an error please tell me what 0064 you think is wrong with the kanji and provide a link to a reference if 0065 possible. 0066 0067 While working on this font I was interested to find that references generally 0068 considered to be authoratitive sometimes disagree on stroke order and even 0069 stroke count. For example, U+6E1B and U+53CE vary in stroke order and Kanjidic 0070 lists hundreds of kanji with multiple valid stroke counts. Appendix E of the 0071 Kanjidic documentation discusses stroke counts in detail. If you are not sure 0072 whether a character needs correcting please let me know anyway so I can 0073 investigate. 0074 0075 OPENTYPE FEATURES 0076 +smcp Smallcaps for a-z. 0077 +utop Thomas More's Utopian characters plus the product integral symbol. 0078 The lowercase Latin characters map to their Utopian counterparts and z maps to 0079 the product integral symbol. Note that Thomas More wrote _Utopia_ in 0080 Latin and, as such, this range of characters does not include the letters 0081 j, u, w or z (but z maps to the product integral symbol). 0082 +spec The Sinclair ZX spectrum block graphics characters. These originally 0083 occupied the range 0x80 to 0x8F in the Sinclair ZX Spectrum character set. 0084 The symbol @ maps to the blank block and the letters A to P correspond 0085 to the non-blank block graphics. Why @? Because in the ZX Spectrum 0086 character set @ was 0x40 and A-P were 0x41-0x4F. 0087 0088 CHANGELOG 0089 2011/03/29 2.016 Added Thomas More's Utopian characters (see +utop above) at 0090 U+F800 to U+F818. Added Product Integral symbol (see +utop 0091 above) at U+F919. Added Sinclair ZX Spectrum block graphics 0092 at U+F7F0 to U+F7FF. Added radicals at U+91D2, U+2ECA, U+8A01, 0093 U+2EB6, U+2EAA, U+2EB7, U+2EA7, U+2EBB, U+7529, U+9763, 0094 U+2EBC. Improved readability of U+9751. Adding missing character 0095 glyph at U+0000. 0096 2010/10/05 2.015 Removed one stroke from U+6357, notionally in compliance with 0097 JIS X 0213 and the Unicode reference table but actually 0098 because someone suggested it. There are many other characters 0099 in KSOF that don't match JIS X 0213 but I don't intend to 0100 change those; I made an exception for U+6357 because it's slated 0101 to become a Joyo kanji. Corrected U+6E90, U+646F, U+7D68, 0102 U+8650, U+6F5F, U+6557, U+8FB6 (controversial: it is unclear 0103 whether this radical has 3 or 4 strokes). Added the following 0104 extra radicals thanks to the generous help of Durand D'souza: 0105 U+722B, U+2E99 (an unusual radical), U+6236, U+4E5A, U+725C, 0106 U+2F21, U+8980, U+72AD, U+9751, U+6C35, U+9578, U+2EAE, 0107 U+8FB5, U+5C23, U+5DDC, U+4E61, U+6237, U+6B7A, U+7CF9, U+8080. 0108 Corrected U+718A. Added U+FA35 (variant of U+5351). Corrected 0109 U+62C9. Shortened first stroke of U+308A. Shortened U+30FC. 0110 2009/10/04 2.014 Added missing stroke order numbers to U+30EE, U+4EDD, U+9FA0. 0111 2009/08/30 2.013 Changed U+53CE to 4-stroke version. Updated U+5099 with more 0112 common version of cliff radical. Clarified U+6163. Corrected 0113 U+7CA5, U+8258, U+5396 0114 2008/12/29 2.012 Corrected U+544E, U+9D28, U+6388, U+5D8B 0115 2008/10/01 2.011 Corrected U+9280, U+8607, U+6089, U+6955, U+7566, U+79A6, 0116 U+7B08, U+9803, U+86E4, U+88DF. Clarified U+8511. 0117 2008/07/17 2.010 Corrected U+74DC, U+9CE9, U+79BD, U+8DA8, U+82BB, U+50FB, 0118 U+4FB6, U+586B, U+5835, U+5C3B, U+63F7, U+64E2. Clarified 0119 U+50AD. Thanks once again to Scott Krogh. 0120 2008/01/02: 2.009 Corrected U+76FE, U+8846, U+885B, U+5171. Thanks to Aaron 0121 and Scott Krogh for spotting these. 0122 2008/04/04: 2.008 Corrected U+5440, U+5BDE, U+6357, U+6E76, U+74DC, U+7C6C, 0123 U+6A8E, U+6A23, U+9244, U+85AC, U+7CDE. Merged in the 0124 Choumei v1.10 glyphs, thus providing KanjiStrokeOrders with 0125 all the JIS 0208 characters. Added support for small caps. 0126 2008/03/03: 2.007 Corrected U+641C, U+854B, U+6F80, U+83DF, U+5C65, U+65C6, 0127 U+6F01, U+750D, U+750E, U+750C, U+7504, U+7503, U+74E9, 0128 U+821B, U+74F1, U+5178, U+82E1, U+5BC3, U+9B42, U+6F11, 0129 U+5E43, U+91D0, U+74F8, U+74EE, U+74F0, U+74F7, U+7513, 0130 U+7505, U+7E4A, U+7515, U+6975, U+64D2, U+79BD, U+6F13, 0131 U+6A8E, U+9B51, U+7DFB. Removed glyph list and moved &, ', (, 0132 ) and * into their correct encoding slots. Correction from 0133 Aaron: U+6E1B. 0134 2008/02/29: 2.006 Corrections from Aaron: U+5EA7, U+51F8. Fixed 0135 appearance of many characters and increased the overall 0136 size of the glyphs. 0137 2008/02/27: 2.005 More corrections from Scott Krogh: U+6570, U+6551, U+7B20, 0138 U+4FC4, U+4F3C, U+74F6, U+629E, U+96EA, U+4E21, U+6E80, 0139 U+5EFB, U+5EB6, U+534A, U+7554, U+754F, U+5224, U+5C04, 0140 U+8DEF, U+96A3, U+9F62, U+5B9B, U+6028, U+990A, U+8A55. 0141 Replaced Tuffy glyphs with those from Choumei, thus making 0142 the font more consistent in appearence. Added a list of 0143 glyphs provided by the font. 0144 2008/01/14: 2.004 Fixed bugs in U+5BA2, U+843D, U+539F, U+9ED2, U+9B5A, U+5B89, 0145 U+6728, U+837B, U+56E0, U+5EAB, U+78E8, U+61BE, U+6545, 0146 U+790E, U+96F2, U+8328, U+596E, U+97FB, U+9054, U+5742, 0147 U+70AD, U+5897 and U+66DC. Many thanks to the eagle-eyed 0148 Scott Krogh for pointing out the errors. 0149 2007/12/13: 2.003 Fixed bug with missing stroke number at U+5144 and adjusted 0150 offset of U+4E2D. 0151 2007/05/08: 2.002 Fixed bug whereby hiragana 'mo' was missing. 0152 2007/01/08: 2.001 Improved the character 'n'. Corrected the character U+5E83. 0153 Fixed the character spacing. 0154 2006/12/28: 2.0 Greatly expanded with new stroke order diagrams to cover many 0155 more kanji, the Latin alphabet, punctuation and some other 0156 symbols. This used a fresh set of SVG data from Ulrich Apel. 0157 2006/10/31: 1.01 Corrected the text strings embedded in the font. 0158 2006/10/27: 1.0 Initial revision 0159 0160 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 0161 Almost all the work for this font was done by the AAAA and Wadoku projects 0162 under the supervision of Ulrich Apel. I just had the idea of turning the 0163 SVG data into a font and did so. Thanks are due to Scott Krogh, Aaron, Paul 0164 Blay and Jeremy Suurkivi for reporting some errors in the stroke order data. 0165 I have fixed all these errors in the current version. Thanks also to Durand 0166 D'souza for doing the background research on the Kanji radicals I added in 0167 version 2.015. 0168 0169 Tim Eyre 0170 0171 mail |at| nihilist (dot) org (dot) uk