And then, change Kotoeri's settings to use Caps Lock to change from Japanese to Romaji for even faster mixing of Romaji, Hiragana and Katakana.

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I was just about to mention the same thing -- using Caps Lock to switch between Romaji and Hiragana is extremely quick and convenient. I suggest setting it to switch to Romaji when Caps Lock is "up" (rather than switching into Hiragana input mode when Caps Lock is "down"). This allows you to switch between various kana input modes, and have it remember which one you had selected when switching back and forth between Japanese and Romaji input modes. You may have to experiment with it a little to appreciate the subtle difference.

But even if you don't use Caps Lock to switch input modes, there's still another way to do it that (IMO) is quicker and easier than cycling through all the input modes with Cmd-space. Kotoeri has shortcuts for each input mode, allowing you to switch directly to whichever one you want instead of stepping through all of them.

Control-shift-J : Hiragana
Control-shift-K: Katakana
Control-shift-L: Full-width Romaji
Control-shift-; (semicolon) : Romaji

Note that the shortcuts change depending on which of the Kotoeri input modes you have enabled. I have Half-width Katakana and Ainu turned off. If you enable Half-width Katakana, it takes over the Control-shift-; (semicolon) shortcut, and Romaji then moves over to Control-shift-' (apostrophe).


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