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From: bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Kanji Fonts
Message-ID: <11010019@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Mar 88 16:13:52 GMT
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Re: KanjiTalk

Could someone take a few minutes to explain what KanjiTalk is?

Does it just provide a Kanji font?  If so, to what level?  JIS level I?
Level II?  Some other basis?  Is the font extendable?  Is a font editor
included? What font sizes can it handle? Can fonts scale (probably pretty
ugly)?

How is input accomplished?  Kana-Kanji conversion?  (you input kana, the
machine looks up kanji for it, dumbly or context-sensitively, you accept
/reject/choose lookup) Some other method?  The package I wrote many
years ago in Japan used a ~3000 cell matrix on a tablet, much like a
Japanese-language typewriter.

What word-processors can be used with KanjiTalk?  I have WriteNow!, and
my wife loves it.  She would be the main client for Kanji usage. She is
not especially computer-friendly, so wouldn't want to have to use a
brain-damaged editor. Either would I for that matter, having tasted of
the Mac.

Does it use JIS-14 or JIS-15 character sets?  Can I communicate
documents to/from other computers with something like RedRyder?

Can I sample it before slapping down $20+$20 with APDA?  Is there
another way to get it than via APDA?  What documentation is included?

Scott "kome-atama" Bayes
bayes@hpfclw