For those who have missed it, here is a totally awesome font for Traditional Characters:

http://www.edu.tw/mandr/content.aspx?sit...nt_sn=3591

It's 教育部楷書字形 and is afaik from the Ministry of Education in Taiwan.

It's really beautiful, and I especially likes how you can actually see the difference between 肉 and 月 in e.g. 明 and 胃.

Here is another MOE site, with stroke order animations using (I think) the same font:
http://stroke-order.learningweb.moe.edu....racter.jsp

I personally think it was a mistake by Heisig & Richardson to use some weird mix between Simplified, Traditional and Japanese in the book (though of course it only affects a few characters).

Take #598 for example: 沒 instead of 没. Does any traditional font write it like this? And for making stories I don't find 沒 any harder than 没. (E.g: bound up crotch doesn't leak "drops" -> have no kids.)

btw ... Heisig also tosses in a Simplified character or two, just to keep us on our toes. Arrrgggh!!!


From my searches, the Traditional fonts that most faithfully render Heisig's hybrid mish-mash are:

MING STYLE:

HanWangMingMedium
http://apt.nc.hcc.edu.tw/pub/FreeSoftwar.../wt002.ttf

KAI STYLE:

AR PL ZenKai Uni
http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/fonts/t...1-1.tar.gz

In fact, I couldn't really find close seconds to these. They are both dificient in a handful of characters and need to be augmented with 3-4 extra fonts (each) if you want the total range. And even with all that, there are still two or three stubborn characters that just don't have a counterpart I can find. Thankfully, the differences at that point are truly small and pretty much cosmetic.

I sure hope that RTH-2 is more gentle with us.

yeah i only just noticed this. Whenever I add a new character to anki I spend some time looking it up in wiktionary and try to figure out the cangjie code to type it. I noticed for 注, the traditional is 註. Quite annoying! it's one that appears to have a different meaning to Heisig's keyword so I might add it later rather than just making a note of it as i am now.

I found on awesome font on my brother's computer. It's called KaiTi. I don't know where to download it, but my god does it look sexy - especially when typing in size 20.

FuDaWei,

Have you tried the Han Nom fonts? Taking a look at your Big5-Heisig spreadsheet, it looks like it displays the characters you were having trouble with. It seems to be able to handle a lot of variants.

Here's a link. It's a 26.5 MB zip file, so pretty big for a font. It supposedly contains all of the CJK Extension A and B glyphs. Han Nom A is Ming style, Han Nom B is Hei style.

I should say I'm not really knowledgeable about all of this font stuff, but hopefully it will help. It did allow me to display a lot of characters in 文言文 texts that I couldn't before.

Side note: that site I linked to is awesome. Plenty of classical Chinese texts there, including 說文解字, 論語, 爾雅, 史記, 易經, etc. Lots of stuff.