Here are some tips on using the "Word Annotation" feature found in the NJStar Chinese Word Processor program because the "help" file included with the program is not very clear on using it.
To annotate a block of text:
1. Highlight the block of text.
2. Select the Tools menu from the Main menu.
3. Select "Word Annotation". Another document will open with the selected block of text and it will be annotated with multi-character words that the program recognizes from the built-in dictionary.
To annotate individual characters within a block of text:
1. Here you will have to use the "Enforce Teaching Rules" feature.
2. First go to the folder holding your NJStar Chinese Word Processor program.
3. Go to the sub-folder titled "Teaching".
4. Make a copy of the file titled "Common Used Characters.b5".
5. Rename the file from "Copy of Common Used Characters.b5" to anything you want such as "test.b5".
6. Open the "test.b5" file using the NJStar Chinese Word Processor.
7. Choose the Edit menu from the Main menu.
8. Choose "Select All". And delete everything in the document. 9. Save the document. 10. Now, open the Tools menu from the Main menu. 11. Select "Options". 12. Choose the "Teaching" tab. 13. Check "Enforce Following Teaching Rules". 14. Check "Use only the characters listed in the following file" 15. Select the "test.b5" file. 16. Click "OK". 17. Now when you use "Word Annotation" it will annotate the individual characters.Note: if two or more characters next to each other form a complete word that is the NJStar dictionary, that word will be annotated and not the individual characters. To annotate those characters you should put a space in between them.
Note: When you have the "test.b5" file selected within the Tools/Options/Teaching menu, you won't be able to enter characters using pinyin. You have to either uncheck the "Use only the characters listed in the following file" or you have to select the "Common Used Characters.b5" file instead of the "test.b5" file.
Note: If a character has more than one pronunciation, the entry using the first pronunciation will be given.
Note: Using this method you can get most of the entries for the single characters is you enter a big enough list of characters. Here are links to three lists from two sites with a fairly good amount of characters:A List of Characters Ordered According to Frequency
All the Characters in the Big-5 encoding scheme