Write hanzi with tone mark for Mac

[Xander]

Hi,

Please forgive me if this has been discussed earlier, in that case just give me the link, but I did not find exactly find what I am looking for so I am posting this.

Me teachers have been complaining about my tones, so I am planning to write the text I have to read every day, with a tone mark above the hanzi. Could you please recommend the proper software for this purpose. I have a Mac.

I am aware of that some/all??? hanzi have several tones, but I can ask me teachers to read the text and correct the incorrect tones.

What do you guys think of this idea?

Thanks.

[muyongshi]

A simple search would help you.... or you could check out the wikis....

[roddy]

The toneover function of Adsotrans will do this, although i'm not sure how well it will copy and paste into a word processor or print.

[imron]

A simple search would help you..

Actually, I'm not sure that it would. I think the OP wants to put tonemarks over the Chinese characters, not the pinyin. I'm not sure if there's an easy way to do this in either windows or osx.

[shibole]

I usually do this sort of thing on paper, but rather than write tone marks around the hanzi I write pinyin "ruby text" below each character and put a tone mark on the pinyin.

I wonder if there are any word processors or anything that support ruby text on hanzi. There are HTML tags for ruby text but browsers don't currently format them as actual ruby text.

Hmm, looks like Microsoft Publisher lets you do this but it's somewhat awkward to use.

[muyongshi]

Oh wow I really misunderstood then....

So, in answer to the real question...nope your screwed

I agree with Shibole that you should just do it by hand....it also will help with your character writing/practice then...

[Xander]

ahh, so I have to do it by hand. Well, I think I am going to write the entire text in hanzi, and then put tonemarks above the hanzi.

Thanks

[muppetwonder]

There exists a font set that has has the zhuyin fuhao next to the hanzi characters with the diacritical mark. If you use pinyin, then the zhuyin will only be a minimal distraction and won't be a cause for you to "cheat" (by reading the phonetics).

I don't know if you can find this font online anymore, but if you really can't find it, pm me, and I can send it to you.

The font as I recall it is TTF, and I'm not sure of Mac OS supports this format. You will also have to type out the text using your computer of course.

[imron]

The font as I recall it is TTF, and I'm not sure of Mac OS supports this format.

Apple invented this format

[muppetwonder]

Apple invented this format

That's true, but since the font file itself was originally intended to be used on Windows computers (it's listed in the system requirements), I'm not sure if it's directly transferable to Mac OS... you know once you try to make something work in Windows, you may screw it up, even if it's supposed to be standardized.

[Xander]

Thanks, is great to get all this help from the people here...