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This font provides an easy way to view stroke order diagrams for over 6350
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kanji, 183 kana symbols, the Latin characters and quite a few other symbols.
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I have also used it as a dumping ground for my own character creation doodles.
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My hope is that this font will assist people who are learning kanji. I
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also hope it will help teachers of Japanese in the preparation of
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classroom material. Beware that Japanese stroke order can differ from the
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stroke order used in other languages that use Chinese characters.
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HOW TO INSTALL AND USE THIS FONT
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Install this font as you would any other TrueType font. In the parts of your
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document where you want the kanji to be annotated with stroke order numbers
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simply set your document's font to KanjiStrokeOrders. You will need to set
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the size of the font to be large to allow the stroke order numbers to
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show up: 100pt seems to be the minimum usable size.
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For what it's worth in this context, KanjiStrokeOrders provides small capitals.
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Access them using the smcp tag. For example, in XeTeX use
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\font\smallcaps="KanjiStrokeOrders:+smcp" at 10pt
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I have had one report from the field of Mac OS X 10.4.11 complaining about
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missing OpenType data, although this does not happen with OS X 10.5. I am
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told that KSOF works fine on OS X 10.4.11 if you ignore the warning, so it's
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nothing to worry about. Thanks are due to Phil for reporting this.
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This font may be freely distributed under the terms of the BSD-style licence
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included with this archive in the file copyright.txt.
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The kanji stroke order diagrams remain under the copyright of Ulrich Apel
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and the AAAA and Wadoku projects. If you find this font useful then please
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consider making a donation to the Wadoku project by pointing your Web
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browser at http://www.wadoku.de and clicking on "Spenden".
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The small number of characters in this font that were inexpertly knocked up
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INTEGRATION WITH JWPCE
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This font enables you to view kanji stroke orders in JWPce. Set the "Big
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Kanji Font" to KanjiStrokeOrders in the Options dialog. Some kanji stroke order
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diagrams might show a different stroke count to that reported by JWPce in the
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same kanji information window. This is because some kanji have more than one
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I created this font by using the Batik library to convert the AAAA and
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Wadoku projects' SVG files into high-resolution PNG images. I turned
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these into a font using Fontforge. I then filled in some missing characters
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using another font I have created called Choumei. Previously I filled in the
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gaps with the public domain font Tuffy but I no longer use those glyphs.
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Included in this archive are two contrived examples of the use of this font
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with popular office software. They are in PDF format.
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As the changelog below shows, users have found quite a few errors in the
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stroke orders diagrams. There are probably more. If you find any errors please
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let me know by email: mail |at| nihilist (dot) org (dot) uk. You can expect
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your changes to appear within a few weeks and I can email you to let you know
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that the new version is available. When reporting an error please tell me what
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you think is wrong with the kanji and provide a link to a reference if
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While working on this font I was interested to find that references generally
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considered to be authoratitive sometimes disagree on stroke order and even
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stroke count. For example, U+6E1B and U+53CE vary in stroke order and Kanjidic
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lists hundreds of kanji with multiple valid stroke counts. Appendix E of the
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Kanjidic documentation discusses stroke counts in detail. If you are not sure
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whether a character needs correcting please let me know anyway so I can
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+smcp Smallcaps for a-z.
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+utop Thomas More's Utopian characters plus the product integral symbol.
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The lowercase Latin characters map to their Utopian counterparts and z maps to
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the product integral symbol. Note that Thomas More wrote _Utopia_ in
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Latin and, as such, this range of characters does not include the letters
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j, u, w or z (but z maps to the product integral symbol).
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+spec The Sinclair ZX spectrum block graphics characters. These originally
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occupied the range 0x80 to 0x8F in the Sinclair ZX Spectrum character set.
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The symbol @ maps to the blank block and the letters A to P correspond
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to the non-blank block graphics. Why @? Because in the ZX Spectrum
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character set @ was 0x40 and A-P were 0x41-0x4F.
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2011/03/29 2.016 Added Thomas More's Utopian characters (see +utop above) at
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U+F800 to U+F818. Added Product Integral symbol (see +utop
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above) at U+F919. Added Sinclair ZX Spectrum block graphics
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at U+F7F0 to U+F7FF. Added radicals at U+91D2, U+2ECA, U+8A01,
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U+2EB6, U+2EAA, U+2EB7, U+2EA7, U+2EBB, U+7529, U+9763,
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U+2EBC. Improved readability of U+9751. Adding missing character
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2010/10/05 2.015 Removed one stroke from U+6357, notionally in compliance with
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JIS X 0213 and the Unicode reference table but actually
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because someone suggested it. There are many other characters
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in KSOF that don't match JIS X 0213 but I don't intend to
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change those; I made an exception for U+6357 because it's slated
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to become a Joyo kanji. Corrected U+6E90, U+646F, U+7D68,
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U+8650, U+6F5F, U+6557, U+8FB6 (controversial: it is unclear
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whether this radical has 3 or 4 strokes). Added the following
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extra radicals thanks to the generous help of Durand D'souza:
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U+722B, U+2E99 (an unusual radical), U+6236, U+4E5A, U+725C,
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U+2F21, U+8980, U+72AD, U+9751, U+6C35, U+9578, U+2EAE,
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U+8FB5, U+5C23, U+5DDC, U+4E61, U+6237, U+6B7A, U+7CF9, U+8080.
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Corrected U+718A. Added U+FA35 (variant of U+5351). Corrected
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U+62C9. Shortened first stroke of U+308A. Shortened U+30FC.
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2009/10/04 2.014 Added missing stroke order numbers to U+30EE, U+4EDD, U+9FA0.
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2009/08/30 2.013 Changed U+53CE to 4-stroke version. Updated U+5099 with more
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common version of cliff radical. Clarified U+6163. Corrected
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U+7CA5, U+8258, U+5396
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2008/12/29 2.012 Corrected U+544E, U+9D28, U+6388, U+5D8B
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2008/10/01 2.011 Corrected U+9280, U+8607, U+6089, U+6955, U+7566, U+79A6,
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U+7B08, U+9803, U+86E4, U+88DF. Clarified U+8511.
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2008/07/17 2.010 Corrected U+74DC, U+9CE9, U+79BD, U+8DA8, U+82BB, U+50FB,
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U+4FB6, U+586B, U+5835, U+5C3B, U+63F7, U+64E2. Clarified
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U+50AD. Thanks once again to Scott Krogh.
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2008/01/02: 2.009 Corrected U+76FE, U+8846, U+885B, U+5171. Thanks to Aaron
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and Scott Krogh for spotting these.
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2008/04/04: 2.008 Corrected U+5440, U+5BDE, U+6357, U+6E76, U+74DC, U+7C6C,
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U+6A8E, U+6A23, U+9244, U+85AC, U+7CDE. Merged in the
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Choumei v1.10 glyphs, thus providing KanjiStrokeOrders with
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all the JIS 0208 characters. Added support for small caps.
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2008/03/03: 2.007 Corrected U+641C, U+854B, U+6F80, U+83DF, U+5C65, U+65C6,
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U+6F01, U+750D, U+750E, U+750C, U+7504, U+7503, U+74E9,
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U+821B, U+74F1, U+5178, U+82E1, U+5BC3, U+9B42, U+6F11,
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U+5E43, U+91D0, U+74F8, U+74EE, U+74F0, U+74F7, U+7513,
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U+7505, U+7E4A, U+7515, U+6975, U+64D2, U+79BD, U+6F13,
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U+6A8E, U+9B51, U+7DFB. Removed glyph list and moved &, ', (,
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) and * into their correct encoding slots. Correction from
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2008/02/29: 2.006 Corrections from Aaron: U+5EA7, U+51F8. Fixed
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appearance of many characters and increased the overall
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2008/02/27: 2.005 More corrections from Scott Krogh: U+6570, U+6551, U+7B20,
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U+4FC4, U+4F3C, U+74F6, U+629E, U+96EA, U+4E21, U+6E80,
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U+5EFB, U+5EB6, U+534A, U+7554, U+754F, U+5224, U+5C04,
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U+8DEF, U+96A3, U+9F62, U+5B9B, U+6028, U+990A, U+8A55.
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Replaced Tuffy glyphs with those from Choumei, thus making
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the font more consistent in appearence. Added a list of
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glyphs provided by the font.
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2008/01/14: 2.004 Fixed bugs in U+5BA2, U+843D, U+539F, U+9ED2, U+9B5A, U+5B89,
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U+6728, U+837B, U+56E0, U+5EAB, U+78E8, U+61BE, U+6545,
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U+790E, U+96F2, U+8328, U+596E, U+97FB, U+9054, U+5742,
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U+70AD, U+5897 and U+66DC. Many thanks to the eagle-eyed
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Scott Krogh for pointing out the errors.
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2007/12/13: 2.003 Fixed bug with missing stroke number at U+5144 and adjusted
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2007/05/08: 2.002 Fixed bug whereby hiragana 'mo' was missing.
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2007/01/08: 2.001 Improved the character 'n'. Corrected the character U+5E83.
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Fixed the character spacing.
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2006/12/28: 2.0 Greatly expanded with new stroke order diagrams to cover many
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more kanji, the Latin alphabet, punctuation and some other
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symbols. This used a fresh set of SVG data from Ulrich Apel.
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2006/10/31: 1.01 Corrected the text strings embedded in the font.
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2006/10/27: 1.0 Initial revision
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Almost all the work for this font was done by the AAAA and Wadoku projects
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under the supervision of Ulrich Apel. I just had the idea of turning the
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SVG data into a font and did so. Thanks are due to Scott Krogh, Aaron, Paul
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Blay and Jeremy Suurkivi for reporting some errors in the stroke order data.
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I have fixed all these errors in the current version. Thanks also to Durand
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D'souza for doing the background research on the Kanji radicals I added in
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mail |at| nihilist (dot) org (dot) uk
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