Kanji stroke direction

I've been working through Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji Vol. I", and
I've just reached character 681: 才. This is the first time Heisig
mentions stroke direction other than some vague advice of "top to bottom,
left to right", and I realised that he has completely neglected diagonal
strokes.

I've been having a lot of trouble finding references for stroke direction;
the best I've found is
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Pagoda/3847/sapienti/bihua.htm, which is
for Chinese (are stroke directions the same? - I know that stroke order is
sometimes different), and seems to be missing some strokes.

I've been treating the top to bottom rule as higher priority than the
left to right rule, eg. I was writing the first stroke of 七 right to
left, although I know believe it is actually supposed to go left to
right. However, the first stroke of 千 goes right to left, is this
because it curves? How about "compressed" diagonal strokes, eg the third
stroke of 孔? I've been writing these right to left, but I now suspect
that is wrong. Is stroke direction ever changed when part of a kanji is
distorted for space reasons?

I've been writing the three strokes on the left form of "water" (eg. as in
河) with all three strokes top to bottom, but I've now found diagrams
with the third stroke drawn bottom to top. Is this correct?

What's the direction for:
1st stroke of 句
1st and 2nd stroke of 兆
1st stroke of 猫
1st stroke of 牛
8th and 9th stroke of 是
1st stroke of ヒ
1st stroke of 毎
5th and 6th stroke of 虫

Any unusual stroke directions I should know?

Thanks for any advice.
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