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Hello,
I wanted to get some practice reading words vertically, so I made a script that will randomly make short words appear vertically.
There are 3 modes:
Always show vertical text (changes the UI a bit to make things fit well - I have not tested this with othe ruserscripts)
Only show short words (up to 3 characters vertically)
Randomly show short words horizontally and vertically)
Use the box at the bottom of the page to switch views
Neat! I’ll try it on my 3pm reviews. I’ve installed a few scripts that change the way the kanji/vocab looks because I noticed how much I struggle recognising even those I know well in the wild.
Hiya @lon !
Worked well and totally threw me off so it’s a good thing. I disabled it once and when I re-enabled, it stopped working. I reinstalled, logged out and back in… the usual but it won’t work again. Using chrome on windows 10 and same scripts as before installing yours. The only thing I did was toggling the vertical mode off then back on.
Wish I’d taken some screen shots before. It looks really neat. It would look even better if I installed some font with a handwritten feel to them but maybe I struggle enough as it is.
Edit: Once I got the first vocab done, it started working but not all the time. I took a few screenshots (pardon the quality I was racing to time 100 reviews!). To try also worked for meaning but not reading. At first I thought it was size but black and white is short. I don’t see how font could affect it, but it could be that. I’ll to pay attention to the font when I get a horizontal word.
@saibaneko
yea, it looks really strange with ~endings. I don’t think there’s really a way around that. The natural thing for the font to do in a vertical scenario is to make a vertical ~. In normal vertical text it’s just an ending and there is no ~ to display, so I guess it’s not something you would really see used often.
As for toggling it on and off, I’m not sure what happens. It uses a random (half) chance of showing shorter words vertically, so maybe you’ve just got incredibly unlucky and it’s always picking the horizontal version.
If you are comfortable editing code, the 16th line says const chance = 0.5; . The Higher this number is, the more likely vertical text will be used for short words. It can go all the way to 1.0.
Thanks for the tip. It took me ages to realise that it was random vert vs horizontal. I just thought they would all be vertical. I probably did not read correctly. It felt like most were vertical once started because I probably don’t even notice when it’s not.
I’ll play around with that. I really enjoy it. It’s funny how the brain works. On two part kanji in vocab, I can really feel the adjustment needed in my brain.
Great idea for a script. It always throws me kinda off when I try reading something vertically (I got some childrens books with fairy tails) as opposed to the “normal” western left-to-right-system.
I’ll try it out with my 1am review.
EDIT: works great. Though now I got to pay extra attention because i nearly mistook 室 for two kanji being placed vertically (the different font from the font randomizer probably added to the confusion). ^^’
Not right now, to make it work well I’d need to re-organise what the page looks like (I imagine it would need a vertical column). That would make things more difficult to display and to find a way to not cause people eye strain as things randomly move around the page.
If anyone wants to have a go at this, feel free to have a go, and share it. the code is free for you to edit.
Maybe if you set it so stuff doesn’t move around the page once the script is enabled. That is to say, if script is on, the probability of vertical text and layout is 1. So people can use it to get used to vertical text and the layout is your version of an adapted layout so it works with all items.
Due to popular demand, I’ve updated the script. It now has options where you can switch between the current mode (randomly showing short words vertically) to an always-on mode where all words show vertically. Or you can keep it so just short words always show vertically, and not change the UI too much.
Do let me know if you find this update useful, or if things need tweaking.
For me, the vertical review items looked like this, they were squashed together against the top of the window. I’m not sure if it has something to do with another userscript i’m using (just Wanikani Override and Lightning Mode) or if it’s only happening in Firefox or on Mac (which i’m using).
I fixed this by adding a min-height to the last css definition in the script:
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