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Code comments, improved error messages in kanjivg.py Print a more useful message if kanjivg.xml has not been created, rather than cascade of errors.
KanjiVG: Kanji Vector Graphics
Licence
KanjiVG is copyright Ulrich Apel and released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 licence:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
See the file COPYING for more details.
Documentation
The project's documentation is at https://kanjivg.tagaini.net/.
Releases
The files in the release are as follows:
- kanjivg-YYYYMMDD-main.zip
This zip file contains all of the non-variant SVG files in the same format as they were in the repository at the time the release was made. This is the file which is recommended for most users who simply want a set of SVG graphics they can use immediately.
- kanjivg-YYYYMMDD-all.zip
This zip file contains all of the SVG files, including the variant forms, in the same format as they were in the repository at the time the release was made.
- kanjivg-YYYYMMDD.xml.gz
The file kanjivg-YYYYMMDD.xml.gz contains all of the non-variant SVG
files in one large XML structure. This is the format in which KanjiVG
was first released. However, although this format will not be removed,
it should now be considered obsolete, and is only provided for users
who want to keep using "legacy" software written for the old
format. This file is generated by kvg.py.
- Source code files
These are the entire repository's source code files. These are generated by github.
Utilities
A utility for unpacking the information in KanjiVG is provided in
kvg-lookup.py. Please see its source code for documentation.
Releases are generated using the updatepublic.sh shell
script. kvg.py generates the legacy format data. There is some
Python library code in kanjivg.py, utils.py, and xmlhandler.py
for manipulating the files. The file make-index.py is for making an
index of the kanji files called kvg-index.json. This index file is
used by the online KanjiVG viewer at the kanjivg
website. Unfortunately the
index file needs to be part of this repository in order that the
Javascript viewer can work properly.