Re: Re: [Dragon-char-datasets] New CVS character commits, small change to Editor

[Harald A. <ha...@pl...>]

David Berner wrote:
> I've found variations in stroke ordering in different sources.

Yes, I'm aware of that. However I looked at several sources, including=20
several Chinese learning books and they all agreed on the changes I=20
made. And also my Chinese teacher told me this stroke order.

> I don't have a strong preference.  However, in the interest of=20
> consistency, I've been trying to follow the stroke order shown on
> the Animated Chinese Characters site at http://www.ocrat.com.
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> We should come up with a policy so contributors know which stroke order=
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> to use for the project.

Yes, definitely. Do we have authoritative sources?

>> Also made a small change to the character data java editor: it now=20
>> displays the stroke number next to the starting point.
> This is excellent, pure genius.  Thank you!

N=F6, it is just pure lazyness. And then, the current version just puts i=
t=20
somewhere NE of the starting point...

> Harald, you've added some characters in CVS that I don't see in the
> Dragon Directory.

Yes, I know. I'm currently in the process of slowly adding english=20
translations to my German Assimil training database. I will then check=20
this into cvs when it's ready for prime time, so you can enjoy another=20
training set.

> I rely pretty heavily on Dragon Directory to figure out which character=
s=20
> I need to add and which are already available, so it would
> be nice to keep it up-to-date.  Sorry to be a nag about this :]

Me too :) So I do the cvs update dance from time to time and then try to =

convert my own training sets and watch the error messages raised by MakeP=
DB.

-- Harald