Are there any Windows program to write pinyin?

[pazu]

Are there any Windows program to write pinyin? I mean I want to write something like:

Wénxué shì shénme?

(note: I'm using Windows XP)

Thanks!

[pazu]

http://www.fozza.com/zhongwen/converter.htm

okay, I downloaded this html to my computer.

[roddy]

http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/PINYIN/pinyin.htm did the trick for me - the macros are

Not sure if there's much point in using them on the forums though - not everyone will have the font's, presumably.

Roddy

[pazu]

Roddy, thanks for your link, but please check this link also.

http://www.chinese-forums.com/viewtopic.php?p=13374#13374

What I found on the internet was usually some macro (and forcing me to use the Microsoft Word), which is something I don't like much.

[skylee]

pazu, I like the fozza.com converter (although cutting and pasting is a bit troublesome). Thanks for raising the question and sharing the answers.

But I have doubt as to whether the tone mark is correctly placed. For example, when I type "liang2", the tone mark is placed on top of "i". I think this is wrong.

I think "a" and "e" always take precedence (they won't appear together), and then it is "o", and in their absence the tone mark should be placed on top of the last vowel. Can anyone point me again to the rule of placing tone marks? (I've read it via one of the links given on this forum.)

[skylee]

Ah found the rules -> http://www.pinyin.info/rules/where.html

[pazu]

Skylee, you're right, the Fozza one is wrong, better avoid that...

Use this instead:

http://pinyin.info/unicode/marks3.html

Or if you want to use it offline, use this one:

http://mulu.8u8.com/ym/py.htm

(You can save it as a file on your computer. Indeed I think the py.htm one is pretty good.)

[skylee]

Thanks pazu. I have tried the one at pinyin.com. But the "a3" when pasted on this forum becomes gibberish. Is it a problem of my machine?

I will try the other one later.

[pazu]

Skylee, the font used for "textbox" in IE and the font used for displaying webpage are different, try to copy and paste a character here, you may see it as a 'g-code', SUBMIT it to the forum, and then you'll probably able to see it again.

[gummylick]

Easytone lets you type in pinyin in standard Microsoft software like Microsoft Word. It uses a special font (4 key Times Roman or 4 key Courier) that turns:

n<i ha[o into pinyin with the proper accents.

Tone keys are:

< for 1st

> for 2nd

[ for 3rd

] for 4th

The font is also available for Mac.

Get it here: http://www.foolsworkshop.com/easytone/

[Konglong]

Wenlin lets you type pinyin. The demo works the same way as the full. Type the pinyin and then 1-4.

http://www.wenlin.com/demo.htm

[Fozza]

Skylee, you're right, the Fozza one is wrong, better avoid that...

Very sorry to resurrect a very old thread, but I thought I'd better post here, as I'm getting quite a few website referrals from this thread!

I've now rewritten the converter, and it produces correct pinyin now. (I'd naively assumed that the tone mark appears on the first vowel, without looking up the rules!)

Thanks for the comments, I wouldn't have known it was wrong if it wasn't for this thread!

[ABCinChina]

http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/PINYIN/pinyin.htm did the trick for me - the macros are

This macro is what I used to convert the entire CEDICT dictionary from tone numbers to tone marks. Works great!

[self-taught-mba]

Wenlin also has a "convert numbers to tone marks" function -

[imron]

And of course there is always pinyinput

[chilli-hot]

I find this the best for accenting pinyin in documents. Works with the Chinese language bar which is simple and compact.

Edited September 3, 2008 at 05:27 PM by imron
No need to attach a copy of Pinyinput. It's hosted on Chinese-forums :-) Linked to the main post instead.