From: Karen Boyette (tokimi_at_collapsar.net)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 13:27:41 PDT
Sam,
We'll take anything you're willing to make. There's seriously a lack of
this sort of thing for Newton and it's desperately needed by some of us.
If I can be of help (ie, testing or reference, etc) please contact me.
As for Jdic, I used it a bit while I was in Japan this summer until it
started to freeze when I looked up a word. The Newt would lock up and
require a reset. Do you know about this?
Karen
Gerstein, Sam wrote:
> Hi guys,
> Enfour's is the only kanji recognizer I've seen out there, and not only is
> it not cheap, as far as I know they don't sell it outside of Japan (I assume
> you're not there)..
> I also have not seen a learning app like what you're looking for, but that
> would be great.. if you know of any open source applications that do this,
> point me at them; I might be able to port something (perhaps not soon.. I
> never have enough free time..).
> The best input method I've seen for Newton is Izumi (which uses Ayumi):
> http://www.aichi-pu.ac.jp/ist/~ohkubo/newton/izumi/
> It's got a strange kanji input method that I think might be pretty good
> after you've gotten used to it.. but you have to be pretty comfortable with
> kanji so you know what order the strokes tend to go in (keep in mind though
> that the way it does it isn't related to any accepted system that I know
> of). Ayumi is the part that lets you write in katakana in a little box and
> have it output either katakana or hiragana.
>
> I've got a Japanese dictionary app that I wrote available on my web page..
> There are a bunch of enhancements and fixes that I really need to make but
> haven't ever gotten around to. Maybe if there's some call for it from my
> user base (which I think is about three including myself). I apologize for
> the huge size of the dictionary package (^_^;;)
> http://www.ryoohki.net/~sam/newtjdic.html
>
> I started another app that would let you make flashcards for yourself (box
> to draw kanji/word, meaning, reading..), but discovered I preferred actual
> paper flashcards. I could try to polish that up enough to give out, some
> evening, if you think you'd use it. I wonder if I could get it to replay
> the strokes as you drew them... Anybody here have experience with that?
> (maybe I'd better start another thread with a related subject)
>
> /sam
>
>
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