From: Gerrit Sangel (z0idberg@gmx.de)
Date: Thu Nov 20 2008 - 06:42:27 CST
Hello Ed,
Am Donnerstag 20 November 2008 schrieben Sie:
> Yes, it would be nice to have a Chinese font with the tone marks in a
> Chinese style.
> Have you looked at AR PL UMing / UKai fonts? :
>
> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/CJKUnifonts/Download
>
> I don't know what they have in there for spacing/non-spacing tone
> marks ... but probably worth investigating.
Yes, I regularly use those fonts. The spacing tone marks are quite ok, but
they don’t have non-spacing-marks, or at least it looks ugly (the tone marks
collide with the base characters)
> I don't know if it will really help you or not, but Dr. Hann-Tzong
> Wang (王漢宗教授) released a number of traditional Chinese fonts to the
> open source community under the GPL and available at
> cle.linux.org.tw/fonts/wangfonts/. The interesting part is that there
> are a couple of fonts which have zhuyin phonetics printed vertically
> right next to the hanzi glyphs.
>
> Here's a sample of one of the fonts, 王漢宗中楷體注音:
> http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/NewUnifontDesign2/images/HWKaiMediumChu
>In.png
>
> So if you could use one of those fonts, it solves a lot of your
> problems. But the zhuyin is only for standard pronounciation. Doesn't
> work for archaic pronounciation -- I think even my sample image from
> the Thousand Character Classic has some "mispronounced" characters in
> it ...
Yep, I also got them. This is quite ok, but first, I don’t know how to deal
with different readings, e.g. ㄏㄨㄟˋ and ㄎㄨㄞˋ for 會, and second, I can’t get
the reading on its own (for example, the cells of my vocabulary lists are:
Chinese – Reading – German).
But thanks nonetheless!
Gerrit Sangel
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