I'm having difficulty uploading primary documents in Japanese from MS Word
docs into Version 5.
The issue is that kanji (characters) that have furigana on top (the
kanji's reading in syllabary script) are deleted in the uploading process
and do not appear in ATLAS. This makes major sections of the text
unreadable. For some reason, ATLAS doesn't regognize these kanji/script
combinations.
Anyone that has experience with Japanese, or foreign scripts, I'd
appreciate any advice.
Thanks,
Tony
Hello Tony
Wow! It is wonderful just to know that there are others also using ATLAS
for research in Japanese! :)
I am only new to ATLAS, I am trying to teach myself how to use it ... as
well as qualitative research methods in general. (The world of
management studies here in Japan is so influenced by quantitative
methods that I know of no other Japanese researcher in management
studies using ATLAS.)
To your query, I have the same problem with furigana disappearing, not
only in ALTLAS, but in other non-Word applications as well. It may be a
feature that is only available in Japanese wordprocesses- the rubi
function. Is there a special reason for having to have the furigana? If
so, then I have made it a practice to include the furigana in brackets
after the Kanji combination, especially for people's names and the less
common Kanji usage. This would mean, however, retyping all the furigana
next to the Kanji, which I am sure you want to avoid.
...
I just played around with the Japanese version of Word 2000 and the best
solution I could come up with is:
In Word do another save using "Namae wo Tsukete Hozon" ("Save As ...")
and put the name you want to save the document. Then, and this is the
important step, save the document as a "tekisuto + kaigyo". Now open the
text file you just saved and you should see the rubi transformed to
hiragana before each combination of the kanji you used rubi with.
Make sure you DO NOT save the text as "tekisuto nomi" as this will
result in both the Kanji and the furigana disappearing altogether.
Although the above solution means that you will not be able to have the
furigana above the Kanji, at least the furigana will be there and it
saves you from retyping.
Of course the best solution would be to not have to do all this and
simply upload the primary document to ATLAS and have the ruby there. But,
I am not computer savvy enough to even understand the mechanism that
makes rubi possible in Word.
I hope I was of some help though ... :)
Kampai! :)
Darren McDonald
Associate Professor
Department of Business Studies & Informatics
Faculty of Business Administration
Daito Bunka University.
TOKYO
E-mail: darren@ic.daito.ac.jp or darren@ja3.so-net.ne.jp
Dear Prof. McDonald,
Thank you very much for your advice on the RUBY issue. Unfortunately, I
don't have the Japanese version of MS Word. Although I took the same
steps that you recommended in my English version, it didn't seem to help.
What I did, instead, was the following, which I found somewhere on the
Microsoft website:
Enabling the Phonetic Guide If an Asian language Is Not Enabled
NOTE: The phonetic guide is installed with the Microsoft Office 2000
Language Pack, so you must install the program before you can use it.
To enable the phonetic guide if you haven't enabled an Asian language,
follow these steps:
1. On the Tools menu, click Customize.
2. Click the Commands tab.
3. In the Categories list, click Format. In the Commands list, click
Phonetic Guide.
4. Drag the command to a menu. When you see a black bar indicating the
location for the command, release the mouse button.
Using this method, I can now select a small amount of text at a time (no
more than 2 lines or so for some reason) and take away the RUBY/furigana.
Unfortunately, no remnant is left of the furigana before or after the
Kanji. It's an imperfect method, but is much faster that what I was doing
before, which was to manually delete and then rewrite each kanji and its
furigana in parantheses afterwards.
Incidentally, the reason I did the furigana was to make my analyses of the
text faster and easier. I just didn't want to have to take time to stop
and look up kanji in a dictionary if I didn't have to.
Again, thanks for your help and feel free to stay in touch with other
issues, as I believe you're right that there are few of us using ATLAS in
Japanese.
Regards,
Tony DiStefano
Quoting Darren McDonald <darren@JA3.SO-NET.NE.JP>:
> Hello Tony
>
> Wow! It is wonderful just to know that there are others also using
> ATLAS
> for research in Japanese! :)
>
> I am only new to ATLAS, I am trying to teach myself how to use it ...
> as
> well as qualitative research methods in general. (The world of
> management studies here in Japan is so influenced by quantitative
> methods that I know of no other Japanese researcher in management
> studies using ATLAS.)
>
> To your query, I have the same problem with furigana disappearing, not
> only in ALTLAS, but in other non-Word applications as well. It may be a
> feature that is only available in Japanese wordprocesses- the rubi
> function. Is there a special reason for having to have the furigana? If
> so, then I have made it a practice to include the furigana in brackets
> after the Kanji combination, especially for people's names and the less
> common Kanji usage. This would mean, however, retyping all the furigana
> next to the Kanji, which I am sure you want to avoid.
>
> ...
>
> I just played around with the Japanese version of Word 2000 and the
> best
> solution I could come up with is:
>
> In Word do another save using "Namae wo Tsukete Hozon" ("Save As ...")
> and put the name you want to save the document. Then, and this is the
> important step, save the document as a "tekisuto + kaigyo". Now open
> the
> text file you just saved and you should see the rubi transformed to
> hiragana before each combination of the kanji you used rubi with.
>
> Make sure you DO NOT save the text as "tekisuto nomi" as this will
> result in both the Kanji and the furigana disappearing altogether.
>
> Although the above solution means that you will not be able to have the
> furigana above the Kanji, at least the furigana will be there and it
> saves you from retyping.
>
> Of course the best solution would be to not have to do all this and
> simply upload the primary document to ATLAS and have the ruby there.
> But,
> I am not computer savvy enough to even understand the mechanism that
> makes rubi possible in Word.
>
> I hope I was of some help though ... :)
>
> Kampai! :)
>
> Darren McDonald
> Associate Professor
> Department of Business Studies & Informatics
> Faculty of Business Administration
> Daito Bunka University.
> TOKYO
> E-mail: darren@ic.daito.ac.jp or darren@ja3.so-net.ne.jp
>
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