Japanese style font

[Darris]

how would I go about making my font work like a syllabary?
In Japanese setting, if I type "ka" it makes the symbol for "ka"
How would I do that to a made up font?

summary:
how do I make a font that makes one character for every syllable instead of every input?

[Shpongle]

try this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=586648

kanji is what your looking for I believe.

[Darris]

try this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=586648

kanji is what your looking for I believe.

it's not actually Japanese that I'm trying to type in. I want to create a font that works like Japanese.
It's for a conlang. I need to have it so every syllable pops out like in katakana or hiragana.