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

[David B. <db...@ny...>]

On 2003.09.08 02:19, Harald Albrecht wrote:
> David Berner wrote:
>> 
>> We should come up with a policy so contributors know which stroke 
>> order to use for the project.
> 
> Yes, definitely. Do we have authoritative sources?
> 

Well, my authoritative source has been ocrat.com up to now... :]

Ocrat is convenient because it's web based, fairly complete, and fast.

The downsides are that it's only got simplified characters and that it 
appears to differ from other major sources on the stroke ordering for 
some characters.

I've been using "Reading & Writing Chinese (Revised Edition)"
by William McNaughton and Li Ying to supplement ocrat for traditional 
characters, but it only has a couple thousand characters and is less 
convenient than a web resource like ocrat.

If anyone has ideas about other sources let me know.  I'll look around 
as well if I can find a bit of free time.  I'd love to find a site like 
ocrat that has traditional characters.

---

While we're getting philosophical about drawing characters and 
implementing policies...

I've been worrying a little bit about stroke direction.

I've been trying to follow the basic rules for stroke direction, but 
I'm sure that there are exceptions that I'm missing, and I'm afraid  
that I may be making systematic errors because I don't have a 
comprehensive source for checking the stroke direction of characters.

It might be wise to do an audit while we've got a relatively small set 
of characters, and implement a policy about stroke direction, so that 
in the future if we wanted to make direction a factor in the drawing 
game we wouldn't have a huge pile of erroneous characters to sort 
through.


Ugh all this smacks of middle management.  It's more fun adding 
vocabulary to my data files.  :]

-david