1 *This document is a simple guide for non Japanse people to use Anthy.
3 *Correction for my poor English is welcome.
4 *Many part of this document is not yet written.
7 *Why conversion system?
12 You can use .rpm or .deb to install Anthy.
13 You also can install Anthy from source package
14 $ ./configure; make ;make install
15 shared libraries, utility commands, and grammer definition
16 files will be installed.
19 *Why conversion system?
20 Japanese text contains both phonetic characters and
21 ideographic characters. There are two classes of phonetic
22 symbols, Hiragana and Katakana. Ideographic
23 symbol in Japanese is called Kanji.
24 Japanese also uses English alphabet to type an
25 unix command, to write a program and so on,
26 thus generally input method systems have ability
27 to enable or disable itself easily.
29 Class of characters in Japanese texts.
30 With Japanese input method enabled
32 -ideographic character
33 With Japanese input method disabled
34 -English(Latin) character
37 Anthy's conversion system is implemented as a library,
38 so you should use a software (e.g. XIM server to input on
39 an X application) which uses the library.
40 This package contains an utility command and Emacs lisp files
41 to use Anthy from Emacs.