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Skritter-like feature in Anki(droid)

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This has probably be done before but I since I played around a little I will show my results here. For me it has been working out quiet well.

When reviewing kanji (hanzi for me) I always had problems to properly scale and position the hanzi on the whiteboard. I was missing a "box" where I had to write the hanzi. When hitting the answer button I had no real/precise feedback on the correct positioning of certain elements of the hanzi.

My idea to the problem: Make a box including "grid" lines. Have anki write the hanzi on top of it on the backside of the card.

Here is the result:
http://i.imgur.com/iqXHBma.jpg?1

This image from the desktop version translates nicely to ankidroid. (I do not know if it does to the iphone version.)
So my reviewing goes as following:
1.) write answer in the box (via the whiteboard-feature)
2.) hit answer, compare the correct positioning with the stuff I wrote on the whiteboard.



Since my code is probably not so nice I will just give an outline on what to get this running:
1.) Edit the card-layout in anki.
2.) Go to this website: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_image_transparency.asp
and copy-paste example 3 in your question and answer layout.
3.) replace "klematis.jpg" with a kanji-box image. And resize the box.
4.) Remove the text "This is some ..." in the question-field and Replace the text with {{Kanji}} (or whatever your field is called)
5.) Reposition the whole thing as you wish.
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