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ctext is awesome. Here's a link to their Yi Jing (Book of Changes): http://ctext.org/book-of-changes

I volunteer as a sysadmin for wengu (http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php). We cover some of the Chinese Classics.

In the coming years, I intend to redo wengu in sphinx-doc + reStructuredText and make them available in a updated website and generated PDF's. There may be some copyright issues with Wilhelm's Yi Jing translation, though. I think there's still a few years left.

I also am creating a spiritual successor to Christoph Burgmer's cjklib (https://github.com/cburgmer/cjklib). It's called cihai, you can find it at https://cihai.git-pull.com.

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> There may be some copyright issues with Wilhelm's Yi Jing translation, though. I think there's still a few years left.

I think there are more than a few years. Wilhelm's translation is probably out of copyright by now, but Bayne's English translation of that is only about 60 years old (too busy to look up the actual dates). I keep wondering if some kind soul who speaks German and English would translate Wilhelm's work, but so far I haven't seen anything. If anyone wants a non-technical side project...

Pingtype's keyboard uses character decomposition data that I generated myself based on cjk-decomp-0.4.0.txt.

https://cjkdecomp.codeplex.com

Just type a character in the text box (using handwriting recognition), then if the character isn't the right one, click on the parts to break it up and rebuild the one you wanted. Then click Insert to copy it to the text translation area, where it can be translated into pinyin, bopomofo, etc.

I love the UI of Wengu, especially how nice the column formatting is. The a:hover providing dictionary info is nice, expect it doesn't do that in context, which require totally different underlying data model (I have a prototype doing that).

Dr Sturgeon work on ctext.org is amazing. But I find the lack of open OCR model and scripts a bit sad, as this part of the work cannot be reused for other projects.

Wow. Love the Ctext categorization. Wish I'd known about this during undergrad. Wengu's nice too with the line by line translation.

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