The current JE consists of 44 disks, and they are divided into 11 disk sets, as in the following list.
JE1: disk set to install JE easily 1disk j? : nkf, lha, Emacs related packages 8disks jd?: Japanese documents mostly by JF project 1disk jw?: Wnn Input Method users' packages 3disks jc?: Canna Input Method users' packages 4disks js?: sj3 Input Method users' packages 3disks jn?: Network software such as mailers, newsreaders 2disks jt?: Japanese TeX packages 2disks jf?: Font packages for TeX and XFree86 13disks jx?: XFree86 Japanese client packages 2disks jxsi?: XFree86j (X11R5 with Xsi extensions) 5disks
The choice of Japanese input method depends mostly on your taste, and JE provides four of them though all you need is only one: SKK, Wnn, Canna, or sj3. The large size of JE is due to this diversity as well as numerous complicated characters in Japanese; count how many emacs' variants JE has! You can't install jw, jc and js all at the same time. In addition, the choice of emacs is more difficult. You need one of X or non-X version of emacs with the built-in interface for one of the input methods. Mule (multi- lingual emacs) has more features than NEmacs(emacs for English and Japanese), but it takes more disk space. Here are some examples that might be helpful: Hiro, a desktop PC user, uses Canna-Mule on his X window system, while a notebook user prefers to use non-X NEmacs with SKK; they are both happy with their choices and have little reason to have more than one emacs. Anyway, once you make the major decisions, the installer will help you choose which packages to install, since it knows the dependency among packages to some extent.