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&FDLNotice; 2002-10-08 1.1 &kiten; is a Japanese reference/study tool for &kde;. KDE Japanese Language &kiten; is an application with multiple functions. Firstly, it is a convenient English to Japanese and Japanese to English dictionary; secondly, it is a Kanji dictionary, with multiple ways to look up specific characters; thirdly, it is a tool to help you learn Kanji. Each of these modes is discussed in its own chapter. Here's a screenshot of &kiten; &kiten; screenshot &kiten;'s most basic mode is as a dictionary for looking up both English and Japanese words. You can also add other dictionaries to &kiten;'s list. &kiten; uses Jim Breen's Edict and Kanjidic as the default dictionaries. You can find more information at the Edict web site and the Kanjidic web site. To look up words in either language, type them in to the text-edit (much like &konqueror;'s location bar) and press either Enter or the Search button on the toolbar (again, much like &konqueror;). &kiten; will then look up the word. You can enter Kanji, Kana and English and get back results from &kiten;. These results of your search will appear in the large results view which takes up the majority of the &kiten; window. searching for an English translation &kiten; search screenshot Often times you will want to filter rare words from your search. &kiten; will do this for you if toggle SettingsFilter Rare. Not all dictionary files support filtering rare entries - most dictionaries, excluding the two provided by default in &kiten; do not. If you have not enabled filtering rare entries, common entries will be labeled Common in the result view. &kiten; supports more advanced searches than plain normal word searches. Case sensitivity and whole-word matching can be enabled or disabled by choosing SettingsConfigure Kiten..., and then choosing the Searching item on the list on the left. The options can be enabled by checking the check boxes and disabled by unchecking the check boxes on this page. These options are global and affect all searches. To search for the beginning of a word, instead of pressing the Search button on the toolbar or pressing Return on the text-entry in the toolbar, choose SearchSearch with Beginning of Word. Similarly, choose SearchSearch Anywhere to search for your text anywhere in a word. These search modes work for searches of both languages. &kiten; can also help you refine your searches by allowing you to search for new text in the results generated by a previous search. To do this, just choose SearchSearch in Results to perform your search. &kiten; can deinflect verbs you search for. To enable this, make sure SettingsDeinflect Verbs in Regular Search is checked. &kiten; will then deinflect Japanese you search for that starts with a Kanji and ends with a Kana. The "Deinflect" option tries to unconjugate Japanese verbs. Deinflect only supports the common verb conjugations. If you search a lot of Japanese text you might consider using this option until you get used to handling Japanese verb forms. &kiten; has features that makes finding the one kanji you want easy from over 14,000 in the default dictionary. Clicking on any Kanji in the main result view will show details on that particular Kanji. This can sometimes be the fastest way to look up a kanji. Kanji searches are also filtered according to whether SettingsFilter Rare is checked. To enable regular searching on the Kanji dictionary, check SettingsKanjidic. You can search with English and Japanese search strings the exact same way you can with the normal dictionary. When searching for Kana readings in the Kanji dictionary, you will have to put a period before the okurigana (the kana that are not part of the Kanji). You can use &kiten;'s radical search dialog to search for Kanji with a combination of radicals and a certain stroke count. Choose SearchRadical Search... to open the radical search dialog. To choose the radicals you want to be in your Kanji, select them from the middle listbox. To display possible radicals to select from this listbox with a certain number of strokes, choose this number of strokes from the spinbox just above the listbox. The radicals you choose will appear in the listbox to the right. To choose how many strokes your Kanji should have, first check the Search by total strokes checkbox. (If you do not want to search by total strokes, uncheck this checkbox.) Then select the number of strokes from the spinbox on the left, under the checkbox. If you want the stroke count to be fuzzy by a certain number of strokes, select the margin of error from the spinbox to the right of the +/- label. To perform the lookup, press the Look Up button. To get a list of all Kanji in a certain grade, enter that grade in the main text-entry in the toolbar. Then choose SearchGrade to perform your search. You can enter Jouyou and Jinmeiyou to get Kanji not in a regular grade but in those groups. To get a list of all Kanji with a certain number of strokes, enter that number in the text-entry in the toolbar. Then choose SearchStrokes to perform your search. This chapter describes miscellaneous features that can be used in both modes in &kiten;'s main window. &kiten; keeps track of all of your queries in a list. You can see your last 20 results by looking under GoHistory. To go forward one in the history, choose GoForward. To go backward one in the history, choose GoBack. If you are unable to input Japanese normally into &kde; applications, you can use &kiten;'s Kana input system that is built in to the text-entry. To start Kana input, press &Shift;Space. Now inputted syllables will be transformed into Hiragana. If you type a syllable in capital letters, it will be transformed into Katakana instead. Press &Shift;Space again to go back to regular input. You can set global &kiten; shortcuts that work everywhere on your desktop. Go to the &kiten; configuration dialog, which can be opened by choosing SettingsConfigure Kiten.... Select the Global Keys section of the dialog. Here you can set the keys for a global word search and a global Kanji search like in other &kde; shortcut configuration panels. You can print the result view by choosing FilePrint. &kiten; will add an informative header to the printout. You can choose the font that &kiten; uses in its result view and while printing. Go to the &kiten; configuration dialog, which can be opened by choosing SettingsConfigure Kiten.... Select the Font section of the dialog and select the font in the font-chooser. &Qt; 3's new font-substitution system makes it so a Japanese font will always be substituted for Japanese characters, even if the font you specify doesn't include them. Thus, you can choose any font in the chooser and everything should still display fine. &kiten;'s last mode is its Learn mode which is in a separate window. To open it, choose FileLearn.... The Learn mode window in turn has two main tabs - one where where you maintain your Learning List, which is the list of Kanji that you are currently trying to learn. The other tab is the quiz area, where you are given a never-ending quiz on the Kanji on your Learning List. If you want the Learn window to open every time you start up &kiten;, check the Start Learn on Kiten startup check box in the Learn section of the configuration dialog, which can be opened by choosing SettingsConfigure Kiten.... The first tab of the Learn mode window, the List tab, provides an area to browse the Kanji in the 8 Kanji grades - 1st-6th grade, Others in Jouyou, and Jinmeiyou. Also in the top half of the tab is a listview which contains all of the Kanji on your Learning List. To choose a grade to browse, choose it from the list in GoGrade. After selecting a grade, the first Kanji in that grade will be shown. To go forward one Kanji in the current grade, choose GoForward. To go back one Kanji, choose GoBack. To go to a random Kanji, choose GoRandom. If you click on a Kanji in the top view, the main &kiten; window will give detailed information on the Kanji you clicked. There are three ways to add Kanji to the Learning List. To add the current Kanji (the one displayed in the view on the top) to your list, choose EditAdd. To add all Kanji in the current grade to your list, choose EditAdd All. The current Kanji in the main &kiten; window can also be added by choosing (in the main &kiten; window) FileAdd Kanji to Learning List. To delete a Kanji on your Learning List, select it and choose EditDelete. You can also select a range of Kanji to delete by clicking in the list while holding down the &Shift; or &Ctrl; keys. Learning Lists can be saved to files for easy storage. To open a list, choose FileOpen... and choose the existing list file in the file dialog. To open a new list, choose FileOpen.... To save a list, choose FileSave and choose the file to save your list to. To save the list under a different filename, choose FileSave As.... When you close the Learn window the list you have opened will be re-opened the next time you start Learn mode. To print out your Learning List, choose FilePrint. The second tab of the Learn window is the Quiz tab. If you have at least two Kanji on your Learning List, this tab will be enabled. Click on the tab to switch to it. To answer the question, click on the pushbutton that contains the answer that matches with the Kanji on the centered pushbutton. If you do not know the answer, you can cheat by choosing GoCheat. This will set the correct pushbutton's focus. To see full information about the Kanji, click on the button it is drawn on. This will be counted as a wrong answer, however, in the same way as if you cheated. If you choose the wrong answer, or cheat, your score for that Kanji will be decremented. If you choose the correct answer, your score will be incremented by two. Your score on the Kanji are shown on the very right-hand column of your Learning List (on the List tab of the Learn window). Your scores are stored globally for each Kanji - thus, the same Kanji in two different files will always have the same score. You can change the way quizzing works in the &kiten; configuration dialog, which can be opened by choosing SettingsConfigure Kiten.... Go to the Learn section, and look at the Quizzing groupbox. Here you can change whether the Kanji, meaning, or reading is given for the clue, and what is given for you to guess on. &kiten; copyright 2001, 2002 &Jason.Katz-Brown; &Jason.Katz-Brown; &Jason.Katz-Brown.mail; &Neil.Stevens; &Neil.Stevens.mail; Jim Breen jwb@csse.monash.edu.au - Wrote xjdic, of which &kiten; borrows code, and the xjdic index file generator. Also is main author of edict and kanjidic, which &kiten; essentially require. Paul Temple paul.temple@gmx.net - Port to KConfig XT and bug fixing. Documentation copyright 2002, &Jason.Katz-Brown; &underFDL; &underGPL; &documentation.index;