imron Posted September 2, 2007 at 10:59 AM Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 at 10:59 AM My pinypin installation works well.Ah ok, that's great to know then Sorry I can't be of help with the MS Pinyin though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muyongshi Posted September 2, 2007 at 11:04 AM Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 at 11:04 AM For all the mac users out there... There is a great (free) pinyin with tone marks input method called biaoyin. It can be found at http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/romanization.html Hope this is useful as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted September 2, 2007 at 11:20 AM Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 at 11:20 AM For the mac, I've just been using my own input method plugin. Not sure how it compares to the one you linked to, but it works well enough that I've not yet bothered porting Pinyinput to the Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted October 4, 2007 at 08:21 AM Report Share Posted October 4, 2007 at 08:21 AM I tried the IME, it works great. I like the option "use combining diacritical marks" which works well for the basic fonts. however is there a way you could allow for finetuning the placing of the tone marks so that It can be made compatible with all fonts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted October 6, 2007 at 03:09 AM Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 at 03:09 AM however is there a way you could allow for finetuning the placing of the tone marks so that It can be made compatible with all fonts?If you are talking about the position of the combining tone mark diacritical when it is rendered above a normal character, then no, there is no way to do this. This is handled separated per application as part of that application's text rendering code. Because this is quite often broken in many applications, the safest way is not to use the combining diacritical marks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted October 6, 2007 at 07:23 AM Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 at 07:23 AM that's too bad. I guess I have to refrain from using 30 different fonts in my document (sh) Seriously, is there a list of compatible fonts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted October 6, 2007 at 08:28 AM Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 at 08:28 AM Nope, and you'll find it's not just a font problem, but also an application problem. In one program a given font might work nicely with the combining characters, and in another the same font might completely mess them up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcow Posted October 6, 2007 at 09:19 AM Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 at 09:19 AM OK that's too bad. But many thanks anyway to a program that I was looking for a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shibole Posted October 7, 2007 at 05:37 PM Report Share Posted October 7, 2007 at 05:37 PM This is awesome! xièxie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metamorph Posted October 9, 2007 at 10:21 AM Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 at 10:21 AM As a Dvorak user I was glad to see PinyinInput is compatible. However, I can't get PinyinInput to function in Dvorak -- please let me know what may be preventing this. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted October 9, 2007 at 01:49 PM Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 at 01:49 PM Are you able to be a little more specific about what part is not working? And also let me know what application you were using, what text you were trying to type, and at what point in the process pinyinput did not function correctly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luo Zhou Posted October 18, 2007 at 06:09 AM Report Share Posted October 18, 2007 at 06:09 AM Thanks imron this is the whack, way better than the macros I was using before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted October 19, 2007 at 01:44 AM Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2007 at 01:44 AM Moved discussion about other Chinese IMEs here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaoWai Posted October 31, 2007 at 11:13 PM Report Share Posted October 31, 2007 at 11:13 PM When I use pinyinput to type bù here in this box, it appears correctly. But in a Microsoft Word document (2003, using Windows XP SP2)) I can type the initial letter b, but not the full bu. I am trying to type "kuai4" here with pinyinput, but can only type "kua" but nothing else happens. Suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted November 1, 2007 at 05:50 AM Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2007 at 05:50 AM It's strange that nothing appears. I've just tested in now in Office 2003 and don't have any problems. Can you tell me what happens if you try typing in unchecked mode? (click on the button on the toolbar that looks like a check-mark). Also does it happen as part of a longer phrase? Or only when you want to type the word by itself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atitarev Posted December 13, 2007 at 03:45 AM Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 at 03:45 AM Regarding the first post I actually added some links to here in Wikipedia and another forum. I already said thank you and I have been part of this forum Perhaps it did work on attracting some people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aymann Posted December 19, 2007 at 01:02 PM Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 at 01:02 PM Thank you so much imron. Keep up the good work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muppetwonder Posted December 22, 2007 at 06:18 AM Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 at 06:18 AM Hey, this is pretty cool! Do you intend on building a version or extending the current one so that what you select are the actual Chinese characters/words/phrases, but what is outputted is the pinyin with tones? I don't know about anyone else, but it's actually more natural for me to see the Chinese words than to see the pinyin. But I pinyin output for creating learning tools and worksheets, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted December 22, 2007 at 12:56 PM Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 at 12:56 PM Do you intend on building a version or extending the current one so that what you select are the actual Chinese characters/words/phrases, but what is outputted is the pinyin with tones?Not really, because there are so many homonyms in Chinese that building in character prediction would require a significant amount of development effort for what is not really that huge a gain. Also development of pinyinput has slowed somewhat since I switched to a Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muppetwonder Posted December 22, 2007 at 05:32 PM Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 at 05:32 PM Not really, because there are so many homonyms in Chinese that building in character prediction would require a significant amount of development effort for what is not really that huge a gain. Also development of pinyinput has slowed somewhat since I switched to a Mac. Oh, I didn't read your posts carefully. I thought you had written something that was based on an existing IME. I think that would be the most easy way of doing it. The regular IMEs are designed to help you get character-based output, and presumably there exists some dictionaries for these IMEs that hold the pinyin with tones. Out of curiosity, how do you do this on the Mac? Which IME do you use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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