Re: tlug: PJE questions

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Chung" == Chung Chiew Farn <cfchung@example.com> writes:

    >> because previously I have tried to install Chinese support and
    >> it replaced a lot of files in the /usr/bin directory with
    >> binaries dated 1993!!

"You are in a twisty maze of passages, all alike."

Except that almost all of them lead to Hell, and some don't....

I strongly recommend that you experiment on a small (200MB partition)
with a bare minimum of RH installed and multi-boot between that and
your "production" installation.  This procedure has saved my ass three
times (once with JE, once with Linux 1.3.something, and once with
glibc).

If RedHat doesn't allow a minimum installation into 200MB, it's time
to switch to a different distribution....

    >> - Which one is better? Wnn or Canna? (Sorry, I'm sure this is
    >> almost the vi-vs-emacs-holy-war analogy but I really hoped to
    >> get a little feel on both of them before choosing to install
    >> one of them) It won't work if I get both engines running, would
    >> it?

>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Bickel <rob@example.com> writes:

    Rob> I use Canna mostly.  I've used Wnn before and I don't notice
    Rob> a big difference.  I use canna because there is a japanese
    Rob> pine which was set-up to use canna and I use pine.  I suppose
    Rob> you can make pine to run with wnn as well, but it was easier
    Rob> to just go with what was available.

(1) Wnn (4.2 and 6.x) provides Chinese and Korean as well as Japanese
    input.
(2) Wnn 6 has much more grammatical intelligence, and is likely to
    make better decisions in many cases.
(3) Canna is free software, and continues to be developed as free
    software.

Other than that, they run neck and neck.  I like Canna's default
interface a little bit better than Wnn's but this is configurable.
Both are compatible with kinput2, both are compatible with XIM, both
are compatible with Mule.

You can run both Canna and Wnn simultaneously; many multi-user
installations do.  With the most recent XEmacs/Mule (20.5 beta) you
can switch between them on the fly; I don't think it's possible on
XEmacs 20.3 but I could be wrong.

    >> - At section 6, it said something like "If you're using client
    >> software after XFree3.1.2 you'll need to save JX11..." or

"You're in a twisty maze of little passages, all alike."  PJE
overwrites your existing software without so much as a how-do-you-do,
I guess (certainly ezinst did that when I last tried it).  Anything
you want to keep around (eg, because the Japanese version breaks some
other part of your system, this is especially common with Japanese
TeXs and associated drivers), you had better save.

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