Skip is copyrighted. How about a non-counting (mostly), "take-it-apart" method?
So I would look up "oku" (English??) under person-sound-heart. I would prefer a method that involved as little counting as possible. ★じゅういっちゃん★ 私はろこえんらかべさ。 Riddle of the week: What song is 35971040100? That is not a catalog number. Hint: the chorus is 3597104042 --- Original Message --- 差出人: Tom Emerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 宛先: James Kass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 日時: 01/07/09 11:03 件名: Re: Erratum in Unicode book >James Kass writes: >[snip] >> An ideal index for the casual or non-CJK user might be quite >> different in approach. Perhaps the first component drawn in >> any character would be a good basis for indexing rather than >> the significant radical. But, as you've pointed out, not all >> components are immediately recognizable as pertaining to a >> particular radical, especially to the casual user. > >If the goal is to generate an index for the non-CJK user then perhaps >something similar to Jack Halpern's SKIP index used in his kanji >dictionaries would be worth considering. For those not familiar with >it, the basic idea is that characters are classified based on their >primary structural pattern and the stroke counts in each component. It >is easier to learn to count strokes than it is to recognize radicals, >IMHO. > > -tree > >-- >Tom Emerson Basis Technology Corp. >Sr. Sinostringologist http://www.basistech.com > "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you suck forever" > >
