README

1. What's this?
===============

scim-anthy is a SCIM IMEngine module for anthy.

SCIM is Smart Common Input Method platform, it provides user friendly/full
featured user interface and development platform to make input method
developer's life easier.

Anthy is a system for Japanese input method.
It converts Hiragana text to Kana Kanji mixed text.

scim-anthy provides some usefull user interfaces for Anthy using SCIM.


2. Requirements
===============

2.1 Necessary

  * scim-1.2.0 or later.
    - http://www.scim-im.org/

  * Anthy-7500 or later.
    - http://anthy.sourceforge.jp/
    - http://sourceforge.jp/projects/anthy/

3.2 Optional

  * kasumi-0.6 or later:
    - Dictionary management tool. Invoked from scim-anthy.
    - http://kasumi.sourceforge.jp/


3. Install
==========

  You can build & install scim, anthy, and scim-anthy by following command:

    $ ./configure
    $ make
    # make install

  If you installed the SCIM into /usr/local or any other non-standard
  diretories, you should specify the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable like
  this:

    $ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure

  You'll find distribution-specific installation method from following site:

    http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/jpninpt.html


4. Usage
========

Yukiko Bando wrote some efficient documents of scim-anthy.
These documents are written for Mandriva users, but also usefull for all users
using other distributions.

Please see them to learn usage of the scim-anthy:

  * http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~apricots/scim-anthy/howto.html
  * http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~apricots/scim-anthy/romakana.html


5. License
==========

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.


6. Credit
=========

Special thanks to all scim-anthy developers and users!

 * Hiroyuki Ikezoe <poincare at ikezoe.net>
   - Originator of this project.

 * Takuro Ashie <ashie at homa.ne.jp>
   - Developer.

 * SHIMODA Hiroshi <piro@p.club.ne.jp>
   - Art work.

 * James Su <james.su at gmail.com>
   - Anthor of scim

 * Yusuke Tabata <yusuke at cherubim.icw.co.jp>
   - Author of Anthy.

 * Yukiko Bando <ybando at k6.dion.ne.jp>
   - Wrote some efficient documents of scim-anthy.

 * UTUMI Hirosi <utuhiro78 at yahoo.co.jp>
   - Packager of RPM package for Mandriva.

 * Ryo DAIRIKI <ryo-dairiki at users.sourceforge.jp>
   - Packager of RPM package for Fedora Core.

 * Mike Fabian <mfabian at suse.de>
   - Packager of RPM package for SUSE.

 * Ikuya AWASHIRO <ikuya at oooug.jp>
   - Packager of deb package for Debian and Ubuntu.

 * Mamoru Komachi <usata at usata.org>
   - Packager of Gentoo package.