Re: FN-FORUM: Hand Writing Recording Software

date posted 30th January 2007 17:23

Brilliant. Thanks Mike. I'll check out all those links tonight (I'm on a
client site at the moment) :)

Any help from your postgrads greatly appreciated.

Dominic

> A try for you...
>
> Chinese write within an upright rectangle, so first decide if you want to
> confine characters to a particular "box" size.
>
> Next, if you want to define radicals (there are 187) there are different
> places to download, mainly in Chinese. Sites like
> http://www.tigernt.com/cedict.shtml use them. In any case, if going this
> route, you will need to record base radicals which are then made up into
> whole characters/pictograms.
>
> In conjunction with the above you could modify Java from
> http://javaboutique.internet.com/AnimLetters_anim/. Or you could contact
> California State University (Long Beach) via the example at
> http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/azi/page1.htm (click on a Chinese character).
> There's also a package at
> http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/newweb/character_page.html.
>
> Two of my Chinese postgrad students specialise in this sort of stuff. I
> shall ask them when they arrive this evening.
>
> HTH a bit...
>
> Mike A.

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