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| Homogenik Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4826 days ago 314 posts - 407 votes  Speaks: French*, English Studies: Polish, Mandarin | Message 1 of 6 21 September 2012 at 4:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've heard that there exists an input method for chinese characters and pinyin simultaneously. What I mean is that
both the character and its corresponding pinyin appear together (pinyin over or under the character) on the screen. Does anyone know of this kind of input method, especially for Mac (as that's what I have myself)? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Peregrinus Senior Member United States Joined 4494 days ago 149 posts - 273 votes Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 6 22 September 2012 at 1:15am | IP Logged | ||
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Check out Mandarin Portal's Tools. However the only options to output both seem to be ones that start with characters and produce both characters and pinyin, not the other way around, and online only though you could copy & paste back to your computer.
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| Fiveonefive Diglot Groupie Japan Joined 5695 days ago 69 posts - 88 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Swedish | Message 3 of 6 22 September 2012 at 8:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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There are fonts that can do this but I don't know of any input method like this.
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| Homogenik Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4826 days ago 314 posts - 407 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Polish, Mandarin | Message 4 of 6 24 September 2012 at 2:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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And do you know where I can download such fonts for Mac?
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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4446 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 5 of 6 02 October 2012 at 6:14am | IP Logged | ||
I haven't seen anything like this as an input method but have seen practically all Chinese online dictionaries come with pinyin on top or next to the characters. The first time I came across a practical pinyin-based input system used at the UN was at a display booth at the Vancouver Expo '86. A lady who did the demonstration typed whole sentences in Chinese pinyin phonetics and the proper characters would appear. Even when there are several characters with the exact same pinyin sound, the computer software could fill-in the correct character. This was 1986 before the first version of Microsoft Windows even appeared on the market. A lot of Chinese (including Cantonese) who are non-Mandarin speakers prefer to use a Chinese handwriting pad instead since they know how to write the characters but not fluent with the proper Mandarin pronunciations. It is a pad plugged into the USB port of your computer. You write the characters with a plastic pen as best you can and a list of closest matching ones will appear for you to choose. The Apple iPad has something similar. You simply change the international setting to configure the keyboard at the bottom of the screen to Chinese (traditional or simplified). Every time you want to write in Chinese, you see a little square on the lower-left of the keyboard onscreen. Simply use your finger and scribble the character as close as you can. Otherwise software like NJStar 南极星 from Australia, Unionway & TwinBridge have been in the market for a number of years for Chinese, Japanese & Korean. Edited by shk00design on 02 October 2012 at 6:30am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lugubert Heptaglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6869 days ago 186 posts - 235 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Danish, Norwegian, EnglishC2, German, Dutch, French Studies: Mandarin, Hindi | Message 6 of 6 10 October 2012 at 9:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Dual output sometimes has been possible for me in MS Word XP under Windows XP. The concept is named ruby text, and the menu sequence is Format-Asian layout-Phonetic guide. There seem to be known problems with this function, and M$ doesn't seem interested in fixing them.
Towards the end of this page, ready-made fonts with pinyin for every character are mentioned. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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