make-me-a-hanzi-tool

A (probably) working version of the make-me-a-hanzi tool.

Building:

1. Install mongodb
2. Install node and run npm i
3. Install meteor using the following command:

   curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

4. Run meteor run

Editor usage:

1. Append a "#", followed by the character you want to edit in the URL like this: localhost:3000/#A. Open the URL in the browser
2. Write any data for your character if it doesn't exist
3. Select one of the 2 fonts from the list to edit your character
4. Go trough the tool
5. Keybindings:
   1. S - Go to the next page of the editor
   2. W - Go to the previous page
   3. R - Clear changes in the stroke editor
   4. N - Next character
6. Note: When cutting 2 intersecting strokes, create 1 or 2 rectangles in the overlapped area when cutting. If any unneeded strokes appear deselect them

Additional script usage for Youyin

In addition to improving the editor, we've also added scripts to make generating data for youyin and hanzi-writer easier. All scripts are located under the server/ directory because that's where the character data is generated.

• process.py - Reads the make-me-a-hanzi dictionary from the characters you have created and converts it to individual character files in hanzi-writer format under the output folder. Do not use directly, use run.sh instead
• run.sh - Gets the character data from the meteor database, exports it to tmp.json, which is used as a make-me-a-hanzi dictionary file. It then runs process.py

youyin-dev-run.sh

This script runs ./run.sh for Youyin development. First, make sure you have the following repositories cloned in the same folder without renames:

• make-me-a-hanzi-tool
• YouyinWeb
• hanzi-writer-data-youyin

Create a symbolic link so that hanzi-writer-data-youyin/data/ points to YouyinWeb/data/: ln -s YouyinWeb/data/ hanzi-writer-data-youyin/data/

Next, edit YouyinWeb/index.js and change the window.CHARACTER_FETCH_URL string to "http://0.0.0.0:8080/data/"

With this setup, you can test characters. Now, every time you have finished a batch of characters, go into the make-me-a-hanzi-tool/server directory and run ./youyin-dev-run.sh. It will:

• Create hanzi-writer character files, like run.sh
• Copy them to hanzi-writer-data-youyin/data
• Go into YouyinWeb and run ./run.sh to start the server.
• Finally, open Youyin locally on http://0.0.0.0:8080 and try creating character cards with the new characters.

Once all characters are working and generated correctly, simply go to the hanzi-writer-data-youyin directory, commit and push the changes.