Graded-Reader-Builder

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

The example pdf is available here

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.

Users

Head to the Releases tab and get the latest build for your OS.

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!

Open the Gradle tab, and under application do run. For now (Chinese 2nd/foreign language, English 1st/mother language) just hit Build :)

In build.gradle, you will need to comment out these dependencies to use Gradle's run task:

    compile "org.openjfx:javafx-graphics:12.0.1:win"
    compile "org.openjfx:javafx-graphics:12.0.1:linux"
    compile "org.openjfx:javafx-graphics:12.0.1:mac"

To use Gradle's shadowDistZip and launch4j, you will need to have these dependencies enabled.

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

##Prerequisites 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.