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    Posted: 15 June 2008 at 7:14am
Hi,

I've uploaded the first version of my transcription of FSI's Cantonese Basic Course Volume 1, Student Text to my web server. I am in the process of converting the scanned PDF's available from this site into HTML for people who prefer HTML over PDF, and so that copy and paste and text search can be used.

Currently I have only transcribed the Introduction Chapter and front matter (excluding title page). In the text I have included HTML comments for things such as page breaks, to make proof reading easier, and also mentioned where I have modified the text (mostly stylistic changes).

I have made an effort to preserve the original American spelling, however as I am transcribing with a keyboard (don't have OCR available) I may have occasionally spelt things with british english as this is what my hands will type automatically if I don't make a conscious effort.

I intend to rewrite sections of the text, most significantly by using LHSK JyutPing and Hanyu PinYin (for where Mandarin is mentioned) rather than the Yale system used in the original text. Additionally I am adjusting the conventions for better readability, as we have more formatting options available with HTML than with the original ?Typewritten? text.

If anyone else has machine readable text versions of the PDF (OCR'd or manually typed), I would greatly appreciate if they could share. I'm going to have to rewrite all the Yale text in JyutPing anyway, so there is still going to be a significant amount of typing for me, but anything that could give my fingers some relief would be fantastic.


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Quote pudding Replybullet Posted: 15 June 2008 at 7:15am
And I forgot to include a link...

http://take.youto.school.nz/~dave/fsi_cantonese/student-1.html


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Quote pudding Replybullet Posted: 26 June 2008 at 2:06am
Ok, so basically the status of this project is now abandoned. It is simply too much work for me to convert to LHSK and verify correctness, and combined with a total lack of motivation on my part recently it's just not going to get finished.

Please feel free to use what's left over for whatever you want...
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