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JWPce is a free Japanese word processor which lets you edit japanese text without the need to install the Windows IME, and without the need for pre-installed japanese fonts either.

It's probably the best tool you can get for free while working on RTK1, with its radical lookup, kanji information, japanese/english dictionary, color kanji feature, etc.

I propose to gather information and tips about this program in this thread.

I'll start off with a question. There is something that has been bugging me for a while in JWPce : whenever I use the "inline kanji conversion" feature, I have never found a way to accept the suggested compound without pressing the enter key. The result is everytime I enter japanese words using this feature I have to press backspace twice because the cursor goes to the next line >_<.

ps: actually the least troublesome I have found is to press the spacebar to do the kanji conversion, the text remains highlighted, but a space is added after the compound, then I press the Backspace key, and the conversion is ended. So that's "space + backspace" everytime I want to do a kanji conversion.

Anyone found a way to do the conversion with just one key stroke?

ファブリス Wrote:Anyone found a way to do the conversion with just one key stroke?

I have not found any key for that, but you can just continue writing. The previous conversion is automatically finished when you start a new conversion, use a non-letter or when the marked area simply gets to long.

There's recently been a discussion on this here; apparently if you switch your codepage to Japanese you are able to use the far superior Windows IME with JWPce. But as you are from Belgium, that may be problematic as it will break many non-English programs, as well as French/German/etc filenames...

You can get some inline dictionary functionality (and a little extra) by using smth like Google documents paired with Rikaichan.

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ファブリス Wrote:Anyone found a way to do the conversion with just one key stroke?

I have not found any key for that, but you can just continue writing. The previous conversion is automatically finished when you start a new conversion, use a non-letter or when the marked area simply gets to long.

Yeah, I couldn't get past that either. On my PDA I get a "." instead of a space, though I really wanted to fix that so I could use it properly on my PDA (got a keyboard for it now)
but I couldn't get past the problems with input, so I switched to the IME but still use JWPce to make flashcards for JFC, if you learn all the keyboard shortcuts you can make them up really quickly, even if you have to trim all the edict entries down after you insert them. Learning all the JFC cardfile flags is also a good idea for making different types of cards. Just for the record, JWPce works perfectly in Linux with Wine.

I use JWPce on my PDA and laptop and I have never used the built in input method that Glenn Rosenthal came up with. Like Fabrice, I just can't see how it is supposed to work. For both PDA and laptop, I use IME. It works fine and there isn't a huge impact on other programs.

I stopped using JFC as soon as I found spaced repetition flash card programs but I still use JWPce for its SKIP lookup feature. If anyone would like an explanation of this then I'd be happy to go through it. It's a pretty quick way of looking up kanji.

wrightak Wrote:I use JWPce on my PDA and laptop and I have never used the built in input method that Glenn Rosenthal came up with. Like Fabrice, I just can't see how it is supposed to work. For both PDA and laptop, I use IME. It works fine and there isn't a huge impact on other programs.

There won't be any impact unless, and until, you use programs with user interface in languages other than English or Japanese, and when you get files with names in those languages, I think. German umlauts are particularly nasty, any files with them in the names will become inaccessible, and on top of that, the umlauts are not shown in this setup so you won't be able to see and change them.
Some new programs that you install after this will also default to Japanese interface language (e.g. Nero).
For a lot of people, these things are not too big an issue.
Also, you pretty much need to do that anyway if you want to use Japanese file names, and I have far more files with Japanese names than with German ones, so I had to do this on my home PC anyway.

I use F2 to trigger the kanji conversion. The cursor does not move. When the one I want is displayed, then I just continue typing the next word or particle. Pressing F2 multiple times cycles thru the candidates. I haven't figured out a way to "back up" in the candidate list, if I go past the one I want accidentally. Then I grab the mouse and click on the one I want.

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Quote:I haven't figured out a way to "back up" in the candidate list, if I go past the one I want accidentally.

I think it's F3.

To go back in the list you either use F3 or push F2 until you go around. Works the other way around, too.

Never thought about how F2 and F3 affect the conversion. Haven't written enough to notice that.