Looking for help from East Asian IPA experts in the group

[kaji_sensei]

Recently discovered a wonderful little application called OpenVanilla ( http://www.openvanilla.org/ ), which basically allows you to design and use custom IMEs for both Windows and Mac. I'd been thinking about doing one to help with transcription of Japanese, and so I downloaded it and

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[doire]

That looks fun. I wonder if there's one for linux?

[bookmal]

Hmm, good find, I could really use it. However, I can't read chinese. Is there a rundown of basic options and file format descritopn in english too?

[kaji_sensei]

The guides on the site are unfortunately only in Chinese, however the file format's really simple, the information is stored in text files that just happen to have a .cin extension instead of txt. Basically, it has a header that holds the information about the name of the input method. After that it has a definition determining what characters appear when you type certain keys. For example