word 2004 phonetic guide

[mojamojasaru-akagezaru]

is anyone familiar with the japanese phonetic guide word 2004 (mac
version)?
I am familiar with the windows version that works nicely and
automatically.
it seems that the mac version requires a person to enter manually the
okurigana (small hiragana over kanji to indicate pronunciation) for
each word. That is insane! since you have to type the sound out anyways
in order to get the kanji in the first place, it seems that it would
not be too difficult to have okurigana appear automatically over kanji
if one wanted it to.

does anyone know about this issue?
will they update the mac version to make is more practical to use?

 

[Klaus Linke]

(crossposted to word.international.features)

is anyone familiar with the japanese phonetic guide word 2004 (mac
version)?
I am familiar with the windows version that works nicely and automatically.
it seems that the mac version requires a person to enter manually the
okurigana (small hiragana over kanji to indicate pronunciation) for each
word. That is insane! since you have to type the sound out anyways in order
to get the kanji in the first place, it seems that it would not be too
difficult to have okurigana appear automatically over kanji if one wanted it
to.

does anyone know about this issue?
will they update the mac version to make is more practical to use?

 

[Michael \(michka\) Kaplan [MS]]

The code bases are separate, as are the features of the IMEs on the two
platforms.

Thus there is likely no code to share here, and if a feature is ine one but
not the other than it means one of the following:

a) it is impossible to do

b) there are insufficient resources to do it

c) it does not rank highly enough compared to other features

Someone with more knowledge of the platform and its IME support would have
to answer further, but it is never a simple matter of "its on one, so of
course it will be on the other"....


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Globalization Infrastructure, Fonts, and Tools
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