To try out the translation function, select Open from the Text menu and open the tute.txt file. Using your knowledge of basic Japanese grammar, follow the hints given at the top of this text file and work through a translation of the text. The content of this sample text is fairly complex, but you can see how easy it is to get an idea of what the text is saying.
Note: You can also select Translation split from the Windows menu to tile the Text dialog and Output list so they don't overlap - this makes the translation process more streamlined.
Hold down the Command key (Left-Alt on the PC), click a character and a popup menu will be displayed. Select Character information from this menu to display information about the character you clicked, or you can highlight a word and look it up in the reference dictionary by selecting Look up selected word instead. This popup menu is smart - it will automatically determine if you have highlighted a word and then set the popup menu default appropriately. This makes translating a document very fast and easy.
If you wish to translate Japanese web pages on the Internet, you should read the HTML web page viewer tutorial.
If you wish to translate Japanese email, you should read the Japanese email tutorial.
Creating complimentary dictionaries
You can create a dictionary to compliment a Japanese text document by copying key words from the Output list dialog to a custom target dictionary during the translation process. Of course, you can also copy text from a document and paste it directly into the New word dialog (and then fill in the other areas) to add a new word to your custom dictionary, if the word you want is not in the Reference dictionary. The full version of Japanese WordMage supports these additional functions.