Re: tlug: kinput2 vs. egg [was: Yatta! ]

[Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com>]

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tlug note from Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com>
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On Tue, 20 May 1997, C. Oda wrote:

> denismcm> why on earth would anyone who could have Wnn + tamago(Egg) input
> denismcm>(that actually seems to make a pretty good job of converting long
> denismcm>strings of input) want to use Kinput2, which is horrible to use on
> denismcm>anything but the shortest input strings (i.e. single words)
> 
> Ahh yes, you noticed this too.  I thought that it was just my settings.
> I found this pretty hard to understand since kinput2 is set to use
> wnn on my system, so I thought that it would parse the Japanese
> bunsho correctly and work the same as egg-wnn.  

  Well, this is interesting.  I just did two quick tests to confirm
our subjective impression that Wnn + tamago is much better than
kinput2  at parsing long inputs.

  Here are the results:

Input: kondo zendera he itte, tetsugyuu roushi no dokusanshitsu ni sanzen su.
Mule (Wnn + tamago): $B:#EYA5;{$X$$$C$F!"E45mO7