Hanlink Posted June 10, 2009 at 09:19 AM Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 at 09:19 AM If I type pinyin typed in Wenlin and copy it into an Excell file, I find that certain of the characters do not come out properly. For example third tone ǒ the 'o' is much bigger than the letters around it, even if I use the gara-wen font which is used in Wenlin, and where it looks fine. In fact, when I look at the ǒ, it turns out that it uses another font (not garawen). When I looked up on the internet what kinds of pinyin font were available, I sourced that there were four 'Pinyin' fonts: Arial, Courier New, Lucida Sans Unicode and Times New Roman. These are all common fonts. In Excell, when I turn the font to any of these, I have the same problems, in that some of the tonal letters are odd-looking, and when I look at the font, it turns out that they are near fonts. I am guessing that for example, the Wenlin typed vowel sits somewhere different to that for other fonts, but for some reason, I can't find the glyph function to find where the proper third tone ǒ sits. The bottom line is, though, if I want a consistent pinyin font in Excell, how do I do it? If I cannot copy and paste from Wenlin, do I need to retype in some other programme? If so, it would be rather painful. Any advice, most welcome... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenniferW Posted June 10, 2009 at 10:34 AM Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 at 10:34 AM Most of the time I use Simsun. I use OpenOffice software (which may or may not be relevant) and with other fonts for Chinese, I find some characters don't show at all - you just get a small box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted June 10, 2009 at 11:24 AM Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 at 11:24 AM I would give Arial MS Unicode a try. For typing pinyin with tones, I would recommend Pinyinput Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanlink Posted June 11, 2009 at 04:35 AM Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2009 at 04:35 AM Thank you for the tips. Sim Sun works, but unfortunately, none of the other main fonts are available in Excell (but they are there in Word), so I can't find MingLiu or Arial MS Unicode or any of the usual fonts. It is very painful. I will need to re-think how to set up what I am doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted June 11, 2009 at 04:49 AM Report Share Posted June 11, 2009 at 04:49 AM For what it's worth, I have no trouble using Arial Unicode MS on my Chinese language version of Excel 2002. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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