Itadaki
Original website. OpenOffice.org extension for the Japanese language. I only provide the unchanged extension compiled from latest sources in the SVN repository. If you want play games with furigana I recommend my new add-on for Firefox: Furigana Inserter.
You can contact me at zorkzero@hotmail.com .
News
I'm in the process of writing a version of Furigana Inserter for OpenOffice.
Furigana Inserter
Furigana Inserter is an add-on for the web browser Mozilla Firefox. It automatically inserts furigana for words written in kanji. Furigana are small characters written in kana which appear above words in kanji.
Furigana Inserter uses MeCab: Yet Another Part-of-Speech and Morphological Analyzer to translate kanji to kana.
Furigana Inserter includes the ability to monitor the clipboard for changes. When a change is detected it inserts the text in the clipboard into the browser page and inserts furigana in it.
Furigana Inserter is licensed under the GPL. Source code is included in the extension. Source code for MeCab is available from MeCab's home page.
News
31.05.2009 Furigana Inserter 1.0.1
Fixed: Sometimes, very rarely it didn't insert furigana for some words. Other small bugs.
24.05.2009 Furigana Inserter 1.0.0
Fixed: Some bugs, that could not be triggered through the normal user interface. Changed GUI: Now you have to use left click to access the menu in the status bar.
Works with Firefox 3.5.
22.12.2008 Furigana Inserter 0.9.4
Major bug fix: Should now work on all versions of Windows. Not only on German and English versions. Only tested on German Windows XP.
Works with Firefox 3.1 beta 2.
05.07.2008 Furigana Inserter 0.9.3
Fixed: Furigana wasn't displayed for words starting with hiragana. Improved speed. Rewritten more code for speed and clarity. Almost all code is rewritten by now.
30.06.2008 Furigana Inserter 0.9.2
If the Rikaichan add-on is installed then it is modified to ignore ruby elements. Removed on-the-fly modifications to the HTML Ruby add-on. The latest version of HTML Ruby - version 4.43 works great without any modifications.
29.06.2008 Furigana Inserter 0.9.1
Second release. Requires Firefox 3. Also requires the HTML Ruby add-on to display furigana.
24.06.2008 Furigana Inserter 0.9
This is the first release of Furigana Inserter. Currently it only works on Windows. Only tested on Windows XP SP3. You are welcome to port it to other platforms and to submit patches. I'll gladly accept them.
Requirements
- Mozilla Firefox. Requires version 3.0 or higher.
- HTML Ruby add-on for Firefox. Furigana Inserter requires the HTML Ruby add-on in order to display furigana above kanji words. Version 4.43 or higher recommended.
- Furigana Inserter requires the dictionary (furiganainserter-dictionary.7z see Downloads) to work. To install the dictionary unpack the file with 7-Zip or WinRAR and drag and drop the resulting file furiganainserter-dictionary.xpi into a Firefox window.
Recommended Software
- Rikaichan is a Japanese English dictionary add-on for Firefox. It is not required in order to use Furigana Inserter, but is recommended for students of the Japanese language.
- JWPCE is a great free Japanese Word Processor for Windows XP. It has a lot of useful features for students of the Japanese language.
- AGTH is a program for capturing text from running programs. You can use to copy the text from Japanese computer games into the clipboard.
