gradedReaderBuilderServer

A server-ised version of https://github.com/IdiosApps/gradedReaderBuilder

Graded Reader Builder lets people create professional-quality graded readers from simple text input (story, vocab, characters, etc.). A wealth of high-quality books written by language learners, for language learners can be produced by this tool!

Graded Reader Builder Input & Output

Features

Supported language pairs:

• L2 Mandarin (Hanzi/Hanzi(+pinyin in footers), L1 English
• L2 English, L1 Mandarin (TESTING)

Graded-reader features:

• All vocabulary words are superscripted in the story, with the form "page.vocab number".
• Each page with new vocabulary has left and right footers (which will split e.g. 3 words into 2 on the left, 1 on the right).
• Key names are underlined in the story.

The example pdf is available here

Users

Please await a RESTful webapp! :)

Developers

In IntelliJ, clone from Git source. Gradle may not be happy (JRE / gradle support mismatch - something like that, forgot) - if so: go to File/Project Structure/Project and set the SDK to Java version 12. Refresh gradle build. Everything should be good!

TODO: I need to update this, as it's ~ a copy-paste of the readme on my JavaFX app version of Graded Reader Builder (which is a bit of a faff to set up; available at https://github.com/IdiosApps/gradedReaderBuilder)

If you encounter a bug, please open an issue so we can make various bug fixes and performance improvements ;)

##Prerequisites for developers You may benefit from having certain fonts installed. For Windows users:

1. Make sure the languages you want to work with are installed in Windows.
2. Install Google fonts. You can install these on a per-language basis, or install all .ttf files by running this Powershell command in the extracted folder (thanks to Guss & EvgeniySharapov @ Stack Exchange:

$fonts = (New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application).Namespace(0x14) >> Get-ChildItem -Recurse -include *.ttf | %{ $fonts.CopyHere($_.fullname) }

Ideally the confirmation dialogue for each font could be skipped.