A bit of IME help, please
Dick Moores
figure out a few things:
1. How to type the 2nd and 3rd chracters of my name, ディック
(which I just copied and pasted).
2. How to type the づ of つづく .
I haven't been able to find anything in the help for these.
Thanks,
Dick Moores
Paul Blay
Dick Moores
Missed that. **BLUSH**
Thank you!
Dick
Paul Blay
Heh, no you didn't. I threw it together after reading your post
(and then Ben corrected it some).
Richard VanHouten
How about something showing what keys make which kana, and how to make
が rather than か or ゃ rather than や if you want to set your IME to
kana input?
Paul Blay
> How about something showing what keys make which kana, and how to make
> が rather than か or ゃ rather than や if you want to set your IME to
> kana input?
The magic of pseudo-wiki is that _you_ can write that page,
(and the magic of laziness is that I won't be).
Ben Bullock
news:2P31g.7409$tT....@news01.roc.ny...
> How about something showing what keys make which kana, and how to make が
> rather than か or ゃ rather than や if you want to set your IME to kana
> input?
You type か plus dakuten (it's on the [ key) for が and use the shift plus
"yo" to get the small yo. That should be marked on the keyboard above the
large yo. You can see a Japanese keyboard on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Japanese_keyboards.jpg
The upper one in that picture is the one I'm using now.
I know you can't see me typing, so you'll have to trust me, but here goes,
in kana mode: がょ.
--
sci.lang.japan FAQ: http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/afaq.html
Richard VanHouten
Ok, thanks, got it. Looks like American keyboards are a few keys short
of being able to generate all the kana in kana input mode, though, so I
guess I'll just stick with romaji input unless/until I ever acquire a
Japanese keyboard.
Ben Bullock
> がょぷぶ
>
> Ok, thanks, got it. Looks like American keyboards are a few keys short of
> being able to generate all the kana in kana input mode, though, so I guess
> I'll just stick with romaji input unless/until I ever acquire a Japanese
> keyboard.
I've heard that less Japanese users use the kana input than romaji input,
which is much more common in Japan. I remember reading some explanations
about this, perhaps on the web somewhere, and I think the gist of it was
that typing with a large keyboard is difficult.
Louise Bremner
> "Richard VanHouten" <ric...@citlink.net> wrote in message
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> > ????
> >
> > Ok, thanks, got it. Looks like American keyboards are a few keys short of
> > being able to generate all the kana in kana input mode, though, so I guess
> > I'll just stick with romaji input unless/until I ever acquire a Japanese
> > keyboard.
>
> I've heard that less Japanese users use the kana input than romaji input,
> which is much more common in Japan. I remember reading some explanations
> about this, perhaps on the web somewhere, and I think the gist of it was
> that typing with a large keyboard is difficult.
It takes longer to learn to touch-type on a kana keyboard, even though
the layout is a bit more logical than QWERTY.
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akane kono
Hi Dick
How are you doing?
Sorry I don't know how to type your name in Katakana, but the answer to your
question on how to type づ is just type 'du' using Japanese IME.
Akane
"Dick Moores" <rdmo...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Dick Moores
> Hi Dick
> How are you doing?
>
> Sorry I don't know how to type your name in Katakana, but the answer to your
> question on how to type づ is just type 'du' using Japanese IME.
>
> Akane
Thanks, Akane.
I've learned from the FAQ to type my name by typing dexextuku, and then
henkanning to change でぇっく to katakana.
デェック
Ben Bullock
> I've learned from the FAQ to type my name by typing dexextuku, and then
> henkanning to change でぇっく to katakana.
> デェック
You can also type "dhekku" to get that. I usually press the 無変換 button
(again, see the photos from Wikipedia which I posted) to get katakana.
muchan
Interesting. I type "delikku" for ディック.
(key of "l" can be used for any "small vowel".
I didn't know that "x" could be used for the same purpose.)
I confirmed "dhi" makes ディ.
to katakana, simply F7 key works. (F5 for hiragana).
I don't have 無変換 button...
muchan
Richard VanHouten
katakana input, Ctrl-Caps Lock changes to hiragana input.
muchan
>>
> Though not documented by Microsoft, it seems, Alt-Caps Lock changes to
> katakana input, Ctrl-Caps Lock changes to hiragana input.
It's an interesting information, but I can't test on my keyboard...
(After some years of frustration of pressing Caps Lock
incidentally with Shift, I mechanically disabled Caps lock key,
so that touching it won't activate Caps...
...sure, I can't test it by changing with other keyboard around,
but OK. I won't use it, anyway.)
And I'd like to write correction to my previous post:
>> to katakana, simply F7 key works. (F5 for hiragana).
Not F5 but F6 is for hiragana.
muchan