1: *This document is a simple guide for non Japanse people to use Anthy.
    2: 
    3: *Correction for my poor English is welcome.
    4: *Many part of this document is not yet written.
    5: --  --  --  --
    6: *How to INSTALL
    7: *Why conversion system?
    8: *How to USE
    9: 
   10: --  --  --  --
   11: *How to INSTALL
   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.
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   18: --  --  --  --
   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.
   28: 
   29:  Class of characters in Japanese texts.
   30:   With Japanese input method enabled
   31:    -phonetic character
   32:    -ideographic character
   33:   With Japanese input method disabled
   34:    -English(Latin) character
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   36: *How to USE
   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.