Installation and User’s Manual Macintosh Japanese Language Kit
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Kana keyboard 12 Removing Japanese from your system 9 Chapter 5 Troubleshooting 23 Additional features for right to left scripts 22 Setting the Text control panel 21 Primary and secondary scripts 20 What are scripts? 20 The Keyboard control panel 19 Choosing an input method 18 Custom installation 6 Displaying Japanese filenames correctly 8 Choosing the current keyboard layout 18 The Keyboard menu 17 Chapter 4 Working in Multiple Languages 17 Easy installation 4 Installing the Japanese Languag
Here’s how to use this book and the Macintosh Japanese Input Method Guide: The Macintosh Japanese Input Method Guide, the other book that came with your kit, explains how to use the Kotoeri input method for entering Japanese characters from your keyboard. This book explains how to install the Japanese Language Kit. You will also learn how to designate which of your application programs should be opened in Japanese, and how to use the new control panels and menus the kit adds to your system software.
2 Chapter 1: Introduction m Kotoeri, a method for entering Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, and Romaji (Roman characters) from a standard keyboard. m Three TrueType fonts, and two screen fonts. m The Japanese Language Register, a program that lets you specify which of your application programs should be opened in Japanese. Programs registered for Japanese will display menus and dialog boxes in Japanese.
If your computer has a high-speed CD-ROM drive, you can install the Japanese Language Kit from the Macintosh Japanese L anguage Kit CD Install disc that came with your kit. To use the CD-ROM for installation, follow the instructions in the next section of this manual, “Installing the Japanese Language Kit from Floppy Disks.” The procedure is the same, but you won’t have to swap disks. Everything you need is contained on the CD-ROM.
4 Chapter 2: Setting Up After a few moments, you see a welcome screen. Double-click here to open the Installer. 3. Open the Installer by double-clicking its icon. You should see the Installer icon in the Install 1 disk’s window. 2. Insert the Install 1 disk into your floppy drive (or insert the Macintosh Japanese Language Kit CD Install disc into your CD-ROM drive.) If you have any virus-detection software, turn it off. 1. Turn on your computer.
7. When you see a message that installation is complete, click Quit to exit from the Installer program. v Not enough disk space? If you see a message that there is not enough room on your disk to install the Japanese Language Kit, either make more room on your disk by removing items you don’t need, or install the kit without the HonMincho and MaruGothic TrueType fonts, as described in “Custom Installation,” next. v Messages tell you when you need to insert another disk.
6 Chapter 2: Setting Up 2. Insert the Install 1 disk into your floppy drive. If your computer is already on, be sure to quit any open application programs. If you have any virus-detection software, turn it off. 1. Turn on your computer. m One or more additional fonts. m Japanese Language Support, which installs the Japanese Language Kit with the Osaka bitmapped font only. This is a good choice if you have limited disk space.
Make sure the disk named here is the one on which you want to install the language kit and TrueType fonts. These are TrueType fonts. If you have space on your hard disk, you can install one or more of these fonts. To switch to a different disk, click Switch Disk. If you are using a LaserWriter NTX-J, you should install these screen fonts. (If you don’t have a LaserWriter NTX-J, don’t install these fonts. They won’t print properly.
8 Chapter 2: Setting Up Double-click here to open the Views control panel. 2. Open the Views control panel. 1. Choose Control Panels from the Apple (K) menu. Follow these steps to set the Views control panel: The Osaka font contains Japanese characters as well as the most commonly used Roman characters. Most users can correctly view Japanese file and folder names by setting the Views control panel to Osaka. You use the Views control panel to set the font for file and folder names.
v Note: If your primary language uses the Roman character set, but is not English, specifying Osaka in the Views control panel will let you read your Japanese file and folder names in the Finder, but may make other file and folder names unreadable. This is because the Osaka font contains most, but not all, of the Roman characters. Osaka does not contain umlauts, accents, and some other non-English characters and symbols. For tips on working around this problem, see Chapter 5, “Troubleshooting.
10 Chapter 2: Setting Up Make sure the disk named here is the one on which you installed the language kit. To switch to a different disk, click Switch Disk. To remove more than one item, hold the Shift key down while you click the items. 5. Click to select the items you want to remove. 4. In the Install Japanese dialog box, choose Custom Remove from the pop-up menu.
m Tohaba Mincho m Tohaba Gothic m SaiMincho m Osaka Tohaba m Osaka m MaruGothic m HonMincho m ChuGothic These fonts are provided with the Japanese Language Kit: 11. Drag to the Trash any fonts you want to remove. 10. Open the Fonts folder (inside your System Folder). Chapter 2: Setting Up 11 When you drag these fonts to the Trash, you have removed the Japanese Language Kit (including Japanese fonts) from your Macintosh computer.
12 Chapter 2: Setting Up This illustration shows the keyboard layout for Kana characters on a standard U.S. Apple keyboard.
Application programs contain a region code that tells your system which language and font to use for menus, dialog boxes, help balloons, and other items. Some programs, however, contain region codes that don’t specify the preferred language. The Japanese Language Register program Now that your system can work in more than one language, it must have a way to determine which programs you want to open in Japanese.
14 Chapter 3: Choosing a Language for Your Application Program Double-click here to open the Japanese Language Register. You’ll find the Japanese Language Register in the Apple Extras folder on the disk where you installed the kit. 1. Open the Japanese Language Register. To register a program: You only need to register a program once. After it is registered, a program will always open in the language you specified, unless you re-register it in a different language.
Click the program you want to register. If the program you want to register is not listed, pull down a menu here to see files in other folders. 3. Select the application program you want to register in Japanese. Chapter 3: Choosing a Language for Your Application Program 15 Drag the program’s icon to the Japanese Language Register. v Tip: You can use this shortcut method to register your programs. If the program you want to register is open, quit it now.
16 Chapter 3: Choosing a Language for Your Application Program 3. Choose English. 2. Pull down the Language menu. Double-click here to open the Japanese Language Register. 1. Open the Japanese Language Register. If you register a program as Japanese by accident, and you want to change it back to English, follow these steps: Creating an English Language Register Pull down the menu here, and choose English. Click OK.
This chapter explains choosing a keyboard layout from the Keyboard menu, and setting the Keyboard and Text control panels to tailor how your computer displays text. When you add another language to your computer, you have new choices about how text should appear on your desktop and in documents. The more languages your computer supports, the more choices you have.
The input method determines what combination of Katakana, Hiragana, and Romaji produces each word of Kanji. The input method also determines whether you type text directly into a document, or into a separate window first. m Pull down the Keyboard menu and choose the keyboard layout you want to use. You can now type in the language corresponding to the layout you chose. 18 Chapter 4: Working in Multiple Languages The U.S.
Double-click here to open the Keyboard control panel. The current default keyboard layout is highlighted. 2. Open the Keyboard control panel. 1. Choose Control Panels from the Apple (K) menu. To set the default keyboard layout: If you want to set the default keyboard layout to a Japanese keyboard, choose a Japanese input method in the Keyboard menu, and then follow the instructions given here.
Primary and secondary scripts The same script can be used by several languages if they share most of the same characters. For example, the Roman script is used for English, French, and other languages. 20 Chapter 4: Working in Multiple Languages Polish, Czeck, Slovak, Hungarian, others Eastern European The script used by your system software—the language in the menus, dialog boxes, and other items on the screen—is your computer’s primary script.
You won’t need to adjust the Text control panel for Japanese text behavior, since this kit contains only one set of rules for sorting order and capitalization. If you have more than one Roman language installed, you can choose the Roman text behavior that you prefer. If you have added Japanese to an English system, or other system that uses the Roman script, your Text control panel looks like the examples on this page. The Text control panel looks different on systems with other languages installed.
22 Chapter 4: Working in Multiple Languages The Text control panel also lets you enable the Force Font option, to use a font for the primary script in programs that do not allow you to change the font. The Text control panel determines the direction (left to right or right to left) in which the system presents text and other onscreen elements such as buttons and menus.
If you still see odd characters on your screen, read on. The Osaka font contains Japanese characters as well as the most commonly used Roman characters. You can usually view all your file and folder names correctly by setting the font for views in the Views control panel to the Osaka font. m Choose Control Panels from the Apple (K) menu, and open the Views control panel. Change the font for views to Osaka. (See “Displaying Japanese Filenames Correctly” in Chapter 2.
24 Chapter 5: Troubleshooting The Osaka font is only necessary to read Japanese file and folder names. If you don’t set the Views control panel to Osaka, you will still see Japanese correctly displayed within your Japanese application programs. You can write and print in Japanese; just remember to give your files non-Japanese names. m In the Views control panel, choose a font that will correctly display your non-Japanese file and folder names.
I re-installed one of my Japanese application programs. Do I need to re-register it in Japanese? I can’t open a file in SimpleText Japanese. m Start SimpleText Japanese, then choose Open from the File menu to open your SimpleText Japanese file. If you have more than one version of SimpleText on your computer—for instance, SimpleText Japanese and an English version—the wrong version may start when you try to open a SimpleText Japanese file. For more information on the Keyboard menu, see Chapter 4.
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