Tips on How to Use the Paper Maker®
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Paper Maker recognizes two letter Romaji, and turns it into images. Katakana are all written in capital letters, such as A, I, U, E, O, YA, SA, and SI. You can write the Japanese vertically or horizontally. The vertical vowel extender for Katakana is "VX", and the horizontal vowel extender is "HX". The small offset letters used in compound syllables are written by placing a small "x" before the Romaji of the bigger symbol, such as in xA, xI, xU, xE, xO, xYA, xWA, xYO, xYU, or even xKA and xKE. Paper Maker is not a phonetic interpreter, it prints literal script. For example, you cannot write (horizontally) English "James" as [JE] [HX] [MU] [ZU]. You must in fact type it in exactly as it will appear on the paper output: [JI] [xE] [HX] [MU] [ZU]. The dot between two Katakana words is simply written as "DOT". Japanese style commas are written "COM" and the circular period symbol or maru, is written "END". The Japanese postal system (for posters) is written "POST". The Hiragana are written entirely in small letters, such as a, i, u, e, o, wo, ya, sa, and si. An old symbol not much used these days for repeated Hiragana symbols is written "REP". Small offset Hiragana are also written with a leading "x", such as xa, xi, xu, xe, xo, xya, xyo, xwa, etc.
Kanji are indicated by entering the text book reference index number of the kanji which corresponds to the character you wish to practice writing. Paper Maker currently handles all 500 kanji found in Crowley's The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power, all 881 kanji whose stroke order is drawn in Sakade's A Guide to Reading & Writing Japanese, and the entire set of 1,945 general use characters found in Henshall's A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters. Paper Maker declares a default empty box as either a square for Kanji and Katakana, or a circle for Hiragana. If you need mostly round empty spaces and just a few empty squares, set the default empty box to round, and type "BOX" wherever you need a square. On the opposite side, you can force a round drawing grid near to a Hiragana you want to practice writing by typing in "rnd" (notice in small letters). For example, suppose you wanted to practice writing the phrase "I wrote the note" horizontally. In the first line you would want the Japanese, and then the corresponding boxtypes directly below:[NO]
[ ] | [HX]
[ ] | [TO]
[ ] | [wo]
[rnd] | [142]
[ ] | [ki]
[rnd] | [ma]
[rnd] | [si]
[rnd] | [ta]
[rnd] | [END]
[ ] |
Thus there are 5 symbols that should be practiced by writting them inside of squares, and 5 that should be practiced inside of circles, hence I arbitrarily set the default to Square, and type in "rnd" directly below each Hiragana symbol. If you can't seem to figure it all out, try asking for help on the Message Board.
"My research also disclosed the fact that one-fourth of the characters in general use in Japanese writing and printing occur in three-fourths of the most frequently occuring words in the spoken and written languages. This means that mastering the content of this book will lead the student of Japanese to powerful control of the language." - The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power. |
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