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Chinese for RiscOs - Version 1.02
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Chinese for RISCOS has now been set up as a single package. At the moment it
only consists of two applications - a flashcard tuition program and a text
reader but hopefully new applications will be added in future.
One possibility is a more sophisticated tuition program which would keep a
record of the characters and phrases known and give an indication of
progress. (I would certainly like something along these lines this because
I've no idea how many characters I know). The main problem with this is
compiling the appropriate databases which is a lot of work. I would also like
to develop !CCR into a proper Chinese editor along the lines of the various
Shareware Word Processors which are available for the PC. It would be nice to
have some sort of translation capabilities too but again this would involve
building some sort of dictionary. It is possible to use !FlashCard as it
stands and Steve Simpson's `PCR' files to look up words (see !FlashCard
ReadMe files).
I still haven't decided what sort of encoding to use - big5 is probably
better in the long term because it provides more characters and there *are*
simplified bitmaps available for it as well. I need to find out for sure
which ones can be freely distributed though.
Version 1.02
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Ooops! Sorry! I forgot to include the card files in V1.01.
Thanks to Thomas Marx for mailing me to point this out.
Version 1.01
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Alterations have been made to !FlashCard to prevent redrawing of the text
icon borders and the associated flickering which was really bugging me.
!CCR:
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Improved (ie. hopefully faster) redraws. It's still a bit slow even with an
ARM3 but there is a lot of plotting involved.
The `messy blob' character problem has been solved!
A PD pinyin dictionary has now been added so you can find out what a
character is by clicking SELECT over it. This pops up a box with the
appropriate pinyin pronunciation(s). These can then be used to look up the
English (or whatever) meaning in a conventional dictionary (ie a paper one).
A lot of dictionaries include pinyin and this is easier for us latin alphabet
types than counting the strokes in the character :-).
Latin text is now displayed, though not very well. Previously it was just
ignored.
A more appropriate Sprite (kan4 - to look at, read).
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As usual all comments, suggestions, complaints, bug reports, questions or
anything else in fact are welcome. Send them to
gapv76@udcf.gla.ac.uk
or
Luke Taylor.
Room 536.
Dept of Physics and Astronomy,
Glasgow University,
Glasgow,
G12 8QQ.
Scotland.
All the Best,
Luke.