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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.
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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?

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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?

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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?

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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.

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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.
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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?

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