skywalker6705
March 10, 2007, 01:32 AM
Well, I'm sure it's apparent now by posting about 10 translations without the Japanese scripts that I am A)Lazy and B)Illiterate. But I'm working on it!
An issue I have when I'm typing up the Japanese script however, is that often in the middle of a sentence in Shounen manga they will use a katakana word or two. Then hiragana again for a few sentences, etc. Now, how I've dealt with this so far is by leaving dollar signs where the katakana goes, and coming back to insert it all in one pass. However, I was wondering if anyone here knows a keyboard shortcut, or something that is slipping by me, so that I can quickly switch the font type I'm using after entering Shift-JIS from the language bar in XP. I'll remove this topic gladly if it turns out I'm just blind. I found how to switch to direct input "\\", but nothing for choosing katakana or hiragana, let alone different widths.
An issue I have when I'm typing up the Japanese script however, is that often in the middle of a sentence in Shounen manga they will use a katakana word or two. Then hiragana again for a few sentences, etc. Now, how I've dealt with this so far is by leaving dollar signs where the katakana goes, and coming back to insert it all in one pass. However, I was wondering if anyone here knows a keyboard shortcut, or something that is slipping by me, so that I can quickly switch the font type I'm using after entering Shift-JIS from the language bar in XP. I'll remove this topic gladly if it turns out I'm just blind. I found how to switch to direct input "\\", but nothing for choosing katakana or hiragana, let alone different widths.