Creating a LaTeX document with furigana

I'm creating a latex document in japanese with lots of furigana and some footnotes. The command to create the kanji with footnote is `\edtext{\ruby{kanji}{reading}}{\Afootnote{meaning}`, where kanji, reading and meaning are my inputs. ​ Is there any way to quickly create them? Yasnippets doesn't seem to work well since I use three different input-modes, japanese for the kanji, japanese-hiragana for the reading and nil for the meaning. ​ I created the following function: (defun jane/latex-footnote () (interactive) (let ((my-input current-input-method)) (set-input-method 'japanese) (let ((kanji (read-string "What's the kanji: " nil nil nil t))) (set-input-method 'japanese-hiragana) (let ((reading (read-string "What's the reading: " nil nil nil t)) (footnote (read-string "What's the footnote: "))) (insert (concat "\\edtext\{\\ruby\{" kanji "\}\{" reading "\}\}\{\\Afootnote\{" footnote "\}")))) (set-input-method my-input))) It does work, but I do need to type the kanji twice. Once for the kanji, and twice for it's reading. Is there any way to improve my function?

You'd have to type it twice anyway. unless you make something that tracks what hiragana you input separately to later put as reading there isn't a way to know kanji from reading or reading from kanji.

I am developing [a Japanese input method](https://github.com/akirak/emacs-dumb-japanese) that tracks input characters in text properties. In theory, it is possible to extract romaji/hiragana from kanji transliterated with it, but the project has a lower priority for me.