Pinyin Font Problems

[Hanlink]

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...

[JenniferW]

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.

[imron]

I would give Arial MS Unicode a try. For typing pinyin with tones, I would recommend Pinyinput

[Hanlink]

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.

[roddy]

For what it's worth, I have no trouble using Arial Unicode MS on my Chinese language version of Excel 2002.