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Four Bobhisattva Vows
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Version with just kanji #1

Open gwmatthews opened 4 years ago

gwmatthews commented 4 years ago

Hi, I took your original and created a version with nothing but kanji, for those interested in the writing practice alone without the rest of the info. It's a bit of a kludge since it is just your original with blanks in all of the slots where you have readings and meanings. I have some zen friends who might appreciate the pure kanji version as well. If you like you can include it, otherwise I'll just use it myself! Cheers and thanks for doing this!

Note, I am kind of new to using github for collaborating, since all of my repos are just my own doing. If you want to included this I'll figure out how to make a pull request!

RoseWagsBlue commented 4 years ago

I have never really gitted. :) When I dropped my domain name a couple of years ago, I started putting LaTeX kanji projects here that I wanted to share at WK.
Am I correct that you did not actually post your edits yet? I can't find them on your fork.
I can write the edits real easy that look good, since I wrote the code, but you are welcome to. The heart of the code is the "heartblock" command. I have reused versions this command in many ways for many projects. If you have no hiragana at all, the command could actually be dropped. Or else just comment alot of it out. Then resize your title and characters so that the columns balance nice with equal characters in each. I doubt there is a way to force column breaks.

This fixed things for me, but I left just the hiragana:

\newcommand{\heartblock}[4] { \CJKfamily{Script=CJK} \fontsize{12}{12} \textcolor{black}{#1\} \fontsize{70}{70} \textcolor{lightgray}{#2\} %\stepcounter{mycounter} \fontsize{08}{08} %%\noindent %%\textcolor{black}{#4}

} I just commented out #4, and deleted #3.
The top looks like this now: image If you want to get rid of the hiragana, just comment out the #1 line.
I have not a clue how collaborative coding works.

gwmatthews commented 4 years ago

Well that makes two of us -- not knowing how collaborative coding works! I think what happens is that a new branch was created when I changed things and I will have to go there and create a pull request. I will do that and you can see what my version looks like. It is a new file called vows-kanji.tex along with the vows-kanji.pdf. Leaving the heartblock command in place and just emptying all of the fields except the kanji field does keep everything in a nice regular grid. Let me try making a pull request!

gwmatthews commented 4 years ago

I have no idea what to do honestly. But like I mentioned, all I did to produce a plain kanji version can be seen here. If you want to add it great. If not, that's fine too!

https://github.com/gwmatthews/FourVows/blob/master/vows-kanji.tex

gwmatthews commented 3 years ago

Hi again, My latent OCD led me to completely redo everything using tcolorbox which enabled me to line everything up nicely! That's a LaTeX package I am a bit more familiar with unlike CJK typesetting. The only thing was since in my version the text is inserted into a series of tcolorbox "rasters" it has to flow first from left to right and then from top to bottom, so I ended up having to write your original text backwards and upside down! Not suggesting this as an addition to your project, but wanted to share my results. It's all here: https://github.com/gwmatthews/TheFourVows

Cheers!