Here's a little tip for Linux and Windows users (I'm sure there's a way for Mac users as well - I just don't have a Mac) - if you want to see the stroke order in the review screen and in most other places on this site, you can set up font substitution for the font Hiragino Minch Pro. The downside of this is that any document using Hiragino Mincho Pro will be viewed using the KanjiStrokeOrders font, but that's fine for me - I don't have Hiragino (a mac font from what I've seen).

First, you have to install the KanjiStrokeOrders font, found here: http://www.nihilist.org.uk/

On Linux (I use gentoo, but it should work with any distribution that uses fontconfig), put the following snippet in a file and save the file as /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-jap.conf (your path may vary)

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "../fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <alias binding="same">
  <family>Hiragino Mincho Pro</family>
  <accept>
    <family>KanjiStrokeOrders</family>
  </accept>
</alias>
</fontconfig>

On Windows (w2k and newer I think), this is done through the registry - save the following snippet as "order.reg" and double-click it (or edit the registry manually using regedit):

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes]

"Hiragino Mincho Pro"="KanjiStrokeOrders"

Works fine, although for the strokes itself, I liked the older font better, the new one looks a bit thin, but apart from that, great and very helpful!

Great hint!!!

Just what I was looking for!!!!
At first I thought it didn't worked.
I tried to reboot Vista and.... worked just fine!!!

In act I think the new visual is so good and helpful that I think this wonderfull site should consider a way to implement it as a default one.

Thanks a lot.

JC Uehara
Minokamo/JP

There are greasemonkey scripts to do this so you don't have to hack the registry/config files. Works on all platforms too.

stupiddog Wrote:Works fine, although for the strokes itself, I liked the older font better, the new one looks a bit thin, but apart from that, great and very helpful!

It's WAY too thin.

I made it work the lazy way, by just setting it as the serif font... but that means I have to change fonts when I look at the Japanese Wikipedia, or all of the characters are way too thin to be legible.

Most other sites are still displayed properly, though.

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Added the to the Wiki home page, and un-stickying (too many stickies).

Can anyone suggest a way to show stroke order for Mac users?

Are there any animated fonts?