1 J-Ben: a Japanese study program
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2 Copyright 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 by Paul Goins
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3 Released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or above
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5 This program should be considered "alpha" status and is not intended
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9 For installation, see INSTALL.txt.
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10 For license information, see COPYING.txt.
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13 Summary of current status:
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15 - The kanji and word dictionaries work at a basic level, but are by
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16 no means fast. They are pending cleanup if not a rewrite. (I
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17 knew much less about Python at the time I wrote them than I do
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20 - Improvement over J-Ben 1.2.3: Startup time is nearly instantaneous
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21 since dictionary data is not loaded until one of the dictionaries
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24 - The preferences menu, although present, does not actually do
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25 anything meaningful yet.
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27 - Most advanced features in the program are not yet present. (Study
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28 lists, kanji practice mode, character/word cross referencing.
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30 - The program can be hooked into jben_kpengine for handwriting
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31 recognition support. However, the path is currently hardcoded.
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32 This is a temporary situation; I plan on making a Python module
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33 equivalent to that code in the future.
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36 As always, feedback and patches are welcome.
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