Copyedit-ja: Copyediting tool for Japanese text

Copyedit-ja is a copyediting tool for Japanese text on Emacs.

• Copyright (c) 2008-2021 Hisashi Morita
• License: Public Domain

Synopsis

1. Check possible typos.

   M-x copyedit-ja-check-typo-particles
   

2. Edit them.

   M-x copyedit-ja-normalize-typo-particles
   

(See color-moccur for detail, since Copyedit-ja is basically just a wrapper around color-moccur with preset regexp patterns.)

Features

Copyedit-ja helps checking and resolving issues with:

• Possible typos (successive ga, no, ni, wo, etc.)
• Character widths (numerals, parentheses, etc.)
• Matching of opening and closing parentheses
• Style (direct style (da-dearu) and distal style (desu-masu))
• Commas and periods (ten-maru and kan-piri)
• Uses of prolonged sound marks (onbiki)
• Space characters between latin text and Japanese text,

etc.

Try M-x copyedit-ja- TAB to list available commands.

Requirements

• Emacs

• color-moccur: multi-buffer occur (grep) mode [1]

  • https://melpa.org/#/color-moccur (source: https://github.com/myuhe/color-moccur.el (forked from v2.71 of the original and incorporated fixes and improvements))

• MeCab: Yet another Japanese morphological analyzer. (optional)

  • https://github.com/taku910/mecab
  • Dictionary for MeCab.
    • https://osdn.net/projects/naist-jdic/
    • https://sourceforge.net/projects/mecab/

[1]: color-moccur v2.73 from the original author can be found in the Internet Archive, although the code seems the same as v2.71.

Installation

1. Install requirements.

   • Install Emacs.

     $ sudo apt install emacs
     

   • Install color-moccur using Emacs package manager. (See MELPA for detail.)

     $ emacs ~/emacs.d/init.el
     ...(add package configurations and reload)...
     M-x package-list-packages
     M-x package install
     ...(choose color-moccur)...
     

   • Install MeCab and UTF-8 dictionary for it.

     $ sudo apt install mecab mecab-naist-jdic
     

2. Install copyedit-ja.

   • Put copyedit-ja.el somewhere in your load-path.

     $ cp copyedit-ja.el ~/.emacs.d/lisp/
     

   • If you prefer, load copyedit-ja on startup.

     $ echo "(require 'copyedit-ja)" >> ~/emacs.d/init.el
     

3. Configure copyedit-ja (optional).

   • Tweak dictionaries to fit your needs in your Emacs init file.

     (setq copyedit-ja--dict-user-specified-keywords
           (append copyedit-ja--dict-user-specified-keywords
                   '(("TCP-IP". "TCP/IP"))))
     

References

Copyedit-ja is inspired and heavily influenced by respectable forerunners' works.

• [KSU1989] Masanori Kurata, Akira Suganuma, Kazuo Ushijima, "Development of a System of Writing Tools for Japanese Documents on a Personal Computer.", Computer Software, Vol. 6, No. 4 (1989), pp. 55-67.
  • https://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110003743558
  • https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jssst/6/4/6_4_373/_article/-char/ja
• [Urayama1998] Takeshi Urayama, Denshi Henshu no Susume: sed no Katsuyou (E-editing using Sed), 1998, Doseisha.
  • https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA38403160