I'm not sure if this fits in this section. It definitely has something to do with RTK though...

Inputting Kanji into computer is tricky, as all of us know. Mostly you'll use a convertor from pronunciation to Kanji. By following the RTK book, we built up a strong association of an English word or phrase to a particular Kanji. This is of greatest worth and can be exploited.

Ever wanted to write "the Kanji for accomplished", for example? I made a small JavaScript library that aims to make that possible. How does it work: You hit a keyboard shortcut (currently ctrl-space), a keyword-input appears, you select the correct Kanji, hit enter, and it gets inserted where you started.

I programmed it in a very short time, it's a mere prototype. I'm posting it already because I want to know what you think about the idea and if it could be of use for anybody.

If you want to try it out, visit this page: http://sixtease.net/RtkInputMethod/setup.html, add the bookmark, then come back here, click the bookmark and try if it works for you.

It will likely not work in Internet Explorer now. Take this as an exclusive preview of something that is yet to me properly made -- don't be mad at me if it doesn't work for you right away. :-)

I hope I'll get some feedback from you guys.

2 questions:
＊can keyboard shortcuts be manually changed by the user?
＊can keyword associations be manually changed by the user?

It doesn't interest me personally, but I would imagine that a few people who have not studied any Japanese and are doing RTK, may find this a fun 漢字 writing "hack".

Not at the moment but I will implement both features if the thing piques any interest.

Did you get the keywords from this site? 76 of them were different from my list of keywords for the fifth and second editions, where all (or almost all) of the keywords on my list matched the fifth and second edition books. I uploaded the list of differences to http://lri.me/upload/rtk-input-method-keywords.txt.

I made an actual input method like that for OS X by creating an input plugin. I'm currently just using this Ruby script though:

rtk = Hash[IO.foreach(Dir.home + "/Japanese/data/kanji-lookup.txt").map { |l|
l.split("\t").values_at(2, 1)
}]
puts (ARGV[0] || STDIN.read).strip.split(/[\n,]/).map { |k| rtk[k] || "" }.join

yes, i got them from here. I'll look into your list. Thanks a lot for sharing!