The big thing that is hard to adjust to is that it's a two-step input process, but English is only ever one step. We chord-keys to diff between uppercase and lowercase, but we don't have two discrete steps to "build" a word.
The trick to keeping everything in its phonetic base characters is to set your input style to /hiragana/ or /katakana/ as you want it. When you've got the word phonetically typed out how you want it, it still has that dotted-underline. That underline means you're in the phonetic character input mode, the first of two input steps. (At this point, you can hit F6 for all-hiragana and F7 for all-katakana in the currently-active term)
Next, instead of hitting "SPACE" triggers the "decide kanji" mode. If you don't want to select a kanji, instead of hitting SPACE, just hit RETURN and start your next word or phrase.
If you want more IME tips, Win2000-J uses the same input system, and I've become reasonably proficient in the past couple years. Starting off was a real bitch, but having it be necessary for work was sufficient incentive to suss out a number of problematic details.
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Date: 2004-03-08 06:24 pm (UTC)The trick to keeping everything in its phonetic base characters is to set your input style to /hiragana/ or /katakana/ as you want it. When you've got the word phonetically typed out how you want it, it still has that dotted-underline. That underline means you're in the phonetic character input mode, the first of two input steps. (At this point, you can hit F6 for all-hiragana and F7 for all-katakana in the currently-active term)
Next, instead of hitting "SPACE" triggers the "decide kanji" mode. If you don't want to select a kanji, instead of hitting SPACE, just hit RETURN and start your next word or phrase.
If you want more IME tips, Win2000-J uses the same input system, and I've become reasonably proficient in the past couple years. Starting off was a real bitch, but having it be necessary for work was sufficient incentive to suss out a number of problematic details.