# README

RIME: Rime Input Method Engine, riming with your keystrokes.

Usage:

- install ibus-rime:

    $ sudo make install

- install schemas, take Pinyin as an example:

    $ make schema_pinyin

- restart ibus after installation, and before installing new schemas:

    $ make restart_ibus

- uninstall ibus-rime, but why :-(

    $ sudo make uninstall

- clear zime database, YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THIS:

    $ make clear_db

- save and restore user dictionary for a specific schema:

    $ cd data; python zimedb-admin.py --save Pinyin
    $ cd data; python zimedb-admin.py --restore Pinyin

Features:
- interchangeable schemas with a ubiquitous algorithm base
- major functionalities from modern input method stereotypes
- introduction of avant-guarde (sometimes PQliar) design
- tweakability++
- open-source 
- cross-platform

Sub-projects:

- rime.py   : experimental Python version of la rime library
- rime.cc   : C++ version of la rime library
- ibus-rime : Linux/ibus client
- weasel    : Windows client
- squirrel  : planned Mac OS X client
- plume.js  : web-based input method
- brise     : rime schema repository
- essay     : vocabulary and language model

Related projects:

- combopy   : an innovative chord-typing practice
- zhung     : an romanization scheme of Zhungyuan Mandarin phonology

L'alphabet de la rime: |
    zed wy ex,
    double-u vee u,
    tee ess ar,
    cue pee o,
    en em el kay jay i aitch,
    gee ef e dee cee bee a.

Epilogue: |

    Sorry for the temporary short of documentation. Feel free to explore.

    For lastest news, visit la rime project home page; we have moved to:
    http://code.google.com/p/rimeime/

    Lastest experimental version of rime.py:
    http://github.com/lotem/rime/

    Questions go to <rime-devel@googlegroups.com>

    Thanks.