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