The Canto Font pre-processor had been updated with two new features.
Keyword Extraction
Many of you with a Lab Pass works with Cantonese professionally, either in a content-creation or teaching capacity. In both lines of work, you want to be able to pull out a list of important terms from the text; you can then prepare glossaries, flashcards, and assessment materials.
The Canto Font Text Pre-processor now automatically extract the keywords for you using the TextRank algorithm. See the following video for how this works.
Style Toggle
If the text you are handling is written in literary Chinese (e.g., classical Tang dynasty poems), the pronunciations is stylistically different as a whole from the modern texts that the Font is tuned for. The text pre-processor now offers a switch for you to change the style:
This automatically annotate the common characters which sounds differently in vernacular Cantonese and literary Chinese with the .jyutping notation. When pasted into documents / presentations, and rendered with the Canto Fonts, it Just Works:
In the future, as needs arise, more specialized styles may be offered.
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