From kerman@hkkk.fi Mon May 23 15:07:20 1994 Received: from karl.hkkk.fi (hkkk.fi [128.214.32.1]) by daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (8.6.8/8.6.4) with SMTP id PAA21700 for ; Mon, 23 May 1994 15:06:33 +1000 Received: by karl.hkkk.fi; id AA21206; Mon, 23 May 1994 08:06:30 +0300 From: Jouni Kerman Message-Id: <9405230506.AA21206@karl.hkkk.fi> Subject: readMe To: jwb@rdt.monash.edu.au Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 08:06:29 +0300 (EETDST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4240 Status: OR INTRODUCING KANJIWORKS KanjiWorks is a new Kanji learning aid for Macintosh users that will help students learn Japanese kanji characters faster and easier than ever before. The product of years of development, KanjiWorks has been designed for any student of Japanese with a Macintosh computer and an interest in kanji. KanjiWorks features a revolutionary new kanji look-up method, permitting you to reference kanji by On/kun reading, English meaning, stroke-count, radical, contained element, or any combination of the last 3. You can specify up to 8 contained elements to narrow down the search. You can also reference a kanji directly from the front- end processor if you use KanjiTalk or the Japanese Language Kit. It is also possible to reference kanji by their JIS, S-JIS, or kuten codes. Custom lists permit you to concentrate only on the kanji you want to study. Kanji recognition tests drill you on the characters you want to master. Floating windows and search palettes make KanjiWorks fun and easy to use. One click of the mouse brings up all the kanji with a given element, reading, or stroke count. KanjiWorks displays the stroke-order for each kanji, broken into elements (radicals) and kanji characters, rather than single strokes. Clicking on any contained element within the stroke order diagrams calls up animated brush strokes of that element, and a mini-tutor for the 214 radicals and their variants. The wealth of information contained in KanjiWorks make it a useful program for any student of kanji. There are enough characters, compounds, and example sentences in KanjiWorks to satisfy the needs of most college-level students of Japanese. And future upgrades to larger data-sets will help your dictionary grow into a complete desk- top reference set and tutor. KanjiWorks *does* *not* require the Japanese Language Kit, KanjiTalk (although it is recommended for superior performance), or any other software. KanjiWorks is a stand-alone application that can be installed on a Mac Classic or above running System 7. Note: 32-bit addressing mode must be set 'On' using the 'Memory' control panel. A Macintosh with at least a '030 processor is recommended. To get the best performance, use KanjiWorks in a fast Macintosh computer with KanjiTalk or the Japanese Language Kit with a TrueType font. KanjiWorks comes in two versions, an Intermediate version with the 1006 "gakushuu" kanji, about 3800 kanji compounds, and 1200 example sentences; and an Advanced version that contains 2229 kanji ("joyo" + "jinmei" kanji), 7300 kanji compounds, and about 3000 example sentences. KanjiWorks requires 1500K of memory. If you have Japanese text processing capability (preferably with a TrueType font), KanjiWorks Advanced requires about 4 Mb of disk space. The all-systems compatible Advanced version requires about 7Mb of disk space. The KanjiWorks Demo is a full working model of the KanjiWorks program. With the 80 basic Elementary 1 level kanji, about 700 example sentences, and 1200 kanji compounds, beginning students will find the demo a good place to start learning the kanji. You can purhcase the Demo by sending AsiaWest Software $10 (applicable towards any KanjiWorks purchase) for shipping and handling, and the disk. The KanjiWorks Demo, and the accompanying Read Me file are copyrighted and all rights reserved by Jouni Kerman, David Azcue, and AsiaWest Software. They may be freely copied and transferred, but no fees may be charged without the expressed written consent of the author, developers, and AsiaWest Software. KanjiWorks is the fruit of several years of development. KanjiWorks was written and developed by Jouni Kerman. David Azcue was Project Coordinator, and assisted in development and planning. The Chief Editor was Yumiko Shiotani. She was assisted by Kumi Sadakane, Naoko Nakadate, and Nancy Iwakawa. Layout and Design was supervised by Danylo Shepelevy. KanjiWorks is currently available for Macintosh only. For more information, contact AsiaWest Software 225 Park Place No. 1A, Brooklyn, N.Y., 11238. U.S.A. Telephone: (800) SYS-ASIA. (716) 636-6726. AppleLink/Internet: ASIAWEST@AppleLink.Apple.Com.