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gjiten

GJITEN(1)						      General Commands Manual							 GJITEN(1)

NAME

       gjiten - Japanese dictionary for Gnome

SYNOPSIS

       gjiten [ option ]

DESCRIPTION

       gjiten  is  a  Japanese	dictionary  for  the Gnome Desktop. It also has a kanji dictionary; any combination of stroke number, radicals and
       search key can be used for kanji lookups.  Requires dictionary files in edict format and a working X Input Method (e.g. kinput2) for  Japa-
       nese input.

       This manpage only explains the command line options. You should be able to access the complete documentation from the Help menu.

OPTIONS

       -c and -v are convenient for fast lookups via keyboard shortcuts.

       -k     Same as --kanjidic

       --kanjidic
	      Only show the KanjiDic window on startup.

       -w WORD
	      Same as --word-lookup=WORD

       --word-lookup=WORD
	      Look up WORD on startup.

       -l KANJI
	      Same as --kanji-lookup=KANJI

       --kanji-lookup=KANJI
	      Look up Kanji on startup in KanjiDic.

       -c     Same as --clip-kanji

       --clip-kanji
	      Look up kanji from the clipboard.

       -v     Same as --clip-word

       --clip-word
	      Look up word from the clipboard.

       --version
	      Prints the version of gjiten

BUGS

       See the BUGS file for a list of bugs. The TODO file is more likely to contain these. Please contact me if you encounter any bugs.

SEE ALSO

       xjdic(1)

AUTHORS

       Botond Botyanszki (boti@rocketmail.com)

								    20 Jun 2002 							 GJITEN(1)

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