Anthy -- Japanese Kana-Kanji Conversion Engine Library
							-*- text -*-

What's Anthy?
=============

Anthy is a library for Japanese Kana-Kanji conversion, targeted for
Japanese text input.

See following page for Anthy development:
	http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianAnthy
	http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-anthy/anthy.git;a=summary


What's New?
===========

See the file NEWS for new features and other user-visible changes in
recent versions of Anthy.


Installation
============

The file INSTALL says how to build and install Anhty on your system.


Configuration 
=============

System administrator is expected to set up following three variables
in anthy-conf.in (usually it's under /etc/anthy directory).

    Variable name  Example                         # Comment
    ----------------------------------------------------------------
    ANTHYDIR       /usr/share/anthy                # Directory 
    DIC_FILE       /usr/share/anthy/anthy.dic      # Dictionary file
    ZIPDICT_EUC    /usr/share/anthy/dic/zipcode.t  # Zipcode file


Anthy Dictionary (anthy.dic)
============================

Here is a figure to explain how Anthy Dictionary (anthy.dic) is
generated.

   depgraph/*.depword
   depgraph/conjugate.table
    ---[depgraph/mkdepgraph]---> anthy.dep (1)

   mkworddic/{extra.t,compound.t,adjust.t,utf8.t,udict},
   alt-cannadic/{gcanna.ctd,gcannf.ctd,gtankan.ctd,g_fname.t}
    ---[mkworddic/mkworddic]---> anthy.wdic (2)

   "initial anthy.dic"
   corpus/corpus.?.txt
    ---[calctrans/{proccorpus,calctrans}]---> corpus_info (3-1)
    					      weak_words  (3-2)

      calctrans/{corpus_info,weak_words} (3-1,3-2)
       ---[calctrans/calctrans]---> anthy.cand_info (3)
       				    anthy.trans_info (4)
				    anthy.corpus_array (5)
				    anthy.corpus_bucket (6)
      				    anthy.weak_words (7)

         (1) depgraph/anthy.dep
         (2) mkworddic/anthy.wdic
         (3) calctrans/anthy.cand_info
         (4) calctrans/anthy.trans_info
         (5) calctrans/anthy.corpus_array
         (6) calctrans/anthy.corpus_bucket
         (7) calctrans/anthy.weak_words
          ---[mkanthydic/mkfiledic]--->anthy.dic

Note that we need "initial anthy.dic" to generate anthy.dic, that's
because 'proccorpus' uses Anthy Dictionary to parse text input.


Licensing
=========

Anthy library is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General
Public Licence 3 (or later), i.e., LGPLv3+.  See the file COPYING.LIB
and COPYING for detail.

Since most of source files are released under the terms of LGPLv2 (or
later), you might use parts of code under LGPLv2.  See COPYING.LIB2_1
for detail.

Dictionary files under alt-cannadic/ and mkworddic/ are taken from
"Alternative Cannadic" Project (alt-cannadic), which is released under
the terms of GPLv2.  See alt-cannadic/COPYING for detail.

For more licensing information in general, see
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html>


History
=======

Anthy project was hosted at SourceForge.JP.

	http://anthy.sourceforge.jp/
	http://anthy.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/hiki/hiki.cgi

Since February 2009, development at there stopped.  Bug fixes and
feature requests was just floating around.

In May 2010, NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@fsij.org> arranged Git repository at
git.debian.org, put some of released versions of Anthy and Debian
packaging code into the repository, and took over the development
lead.  At alioth.debian.org, pkg-anthy project was created for Anthy
development and Debian packaging for Anthy and related packages.


Authors & Credits
=================

See AUTHORS and THANKS.

Original Authors were TABATA Yusuke, UGAWA Tomoharu, and guys at Kyoto
University Micro Computer Club.  YOSHIDA Yuichi added some features.
The project got fund from IPA Japan (NIIBE Yutaka was project manager
in 2001 and Fumitoshi UKAI was project manager in 2003).  In the GSoC
2006 program with FSIJ, HANAOKA Toshiyuki and Higashiyama Masahiko
contributed some enhancements, under TABATA Yusuke's mentorship.

-- 
This file is part of Anthy.

Anthy is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.

Anthy 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.
