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- From: wk04975@worldlink.com (Bill Brekke)
- Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
- Subject: JWP - Japanese Word Processor for Windows 3.1
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:52:22 GMT
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- There is an alpha version of a Japanese Word processor available called JWP. I recently got it by anonymous FTP from kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov in
- directory \pub\misc . It is also available on GENIE in the Japan group (type JAPAN at a prompt). This is MUCH better than MOKE. It is also very
- large. It is in at least 6 zip files and there are some optional files and more than one alpha version of the main program. The list of files on Genie
- differs slightly from those at the kilroy address. I have nothing to do
- with it except I have been taking some Japanese classes and I'm into computers.
-
- To prevent you from having to spend hours downloading it just to
- get a general idea what it does, here's a description:
-
- To enter hiragana, just be sure the hiragana icon is clicked "on" on the
- icon bar and type in the sounds on your regular keyboard in all lower
- case. As soon as a full hiragana sound has been entered, such as "ni"
- the hiragan will pop up on the screen. To enter katakana, do the same
- thing, but in all caps.
- To enter Kanji, this is the neat part of course, begin the word with a capital
- letter and make the rest lower case. Each letter you type causes the
- system to check to see if the letters you have typed form the longest
- kanji containing that combination of sounds. When it does a kanji pops
- on the screen where you're typing and a list of homonyms appears across
- the bottom of the screen. You can either accept that kanji (probably
- not the one you want) or you can choose one from the bottom instead.
- You can scroll through them with the scroll bar. You can also get a
- definition of any of the suggested kanji by pressing F6 to help you
- choose the one you want. If the kanji you want is a sound which is a
- subset of a longer kanji you can force the system to stop looking for
- the longest kaji containing that combination of sounds and give you what it has for that set of
- sounds by pressing F2 as you're building the Kanji. As you're building
- the Kanji the hiragana appears on the screen in reverse video.
- You can use the pop-up dictionary to find the japanese kanji or
- kana for any English word you key in and the dictionary is always only
- F6 away. Remember though, I said is is an Alpha version, and I've found some
- odd inconsistencies.
- The prinout is very nice and uses the windows 3.1 features so it
- will work with YOUR printer (unless you have a Diablo type!). MOKE, the
- last time I checked only works with Epson 24 pin printers. Apparently
- the dictionary is the same one used in MOKE, by the way.
- If you know anything about Japanese you know that you would have to
- know a good deal about Japanese to get much useful work out of this even
- with all it's conveniences. Still, it's seems pretty awesome to me.
-