Pinyin tone marker

[dhl]

Does anyone here know of any program that instanstly marks the tone over av word. Now i use a macro i Office and i think its a bit of a hassle...

for instance if you write "ni3" and instanstly when the 3-button i pressed the output changes to "nĭ". It seems like a fairly simple program to produce, if you know how to but i haven´t found any here on this forum or anywhere else that i looked either.

P.S. I don´t want to hear of any NJstar

[imron]

Haha, yep a pretty simple program to write, I could write it for you pretty quickly... how much would you willing to pay for it though? :-)

But why not just use something like http://pinyin.info/unicode/marks3.html.. unless for some reason you absolutely have to have the tone marks appear instantly..

[Chappie]

No offence but writting such program takes no more then 1 hour...

[dhl]

I know its not a simple program to produce, the problem is that i am deaf, dumb, blind when it comes to computerprogramming...

[browny]

this is php code to translate a single sound+tone into proper pinyin.

eg. hao3 -> hǎo

/**

* Take the pinyin sound and it's tone, and generate the proper piyin

*

* $sound String the raw pinyin sound

* $tone int The mandarin tone. From 1 to 5.

* returns String the full pinyin representation

*/

function doPinyin($sound, $tone) {

$pinyin = ""; //to feed the pinyin chars in

$toneinputted = false; //only change 1 vowel to pinyin!

//Find the first vowel in $sound

for ($counter = 0; $counter < strlen($sound); $counter++) {

if (!$toneinputted && $sound{$counter} === "a") {

if ($tone == "1") { $pinyin .= "ā"; }

if ($tone == "2") { $pinyin .= "á"; }

if ($tone == "3") { $pinyin .= "ǎ"; }

if ($tone == "4") { $pinyin .= "à"; }

if ($tone == "5") { $pinyin .= "a"; }

$toneinputted = true;

} else if (!$toneinputted && $sound{$counter} === "e") {

if ($tone == "1") { $pinyin .= "ē"; }

if ($tone == "2") { $pinyin .= "é"; }

if ($tone == "3") { $pinyin .= "ě"; }

if ($tone == "4") { $pinyin .= "è"; }

if ($tone == "5") { $pinyin .= "e"; }

$toneinputted = true;

} else if (!$toneinputted && $sound{$counter} === "i") {

if ($tone == "1") { $pinyin .= "ī"; }

if ($tone == "2") { $pinyin .= "í"; }

if ($tone == "3") { $pinyin .= "ǐ"; }

if ($tone == "4") { $pinyin .= "ì"; }

if ($tone == "5") { $pinyin .= "i"; }

$toneinputted = true;

} else if (!$toneinputted && $sound{$counter} === "o") {

if ($tone == "1") { $pinyin .= "ō"; }

if ($tone == "2") { $pinyin .= "ó"; }

if ($tone == "3") { $pinyin .= "ǒ"; }

if ($tone == "4") { $pinyin .= "ò"; }

if ($tone == "5") { $pinyin .= "o"; }

$toneinputted = true;

} else if (!$toneinputted && $sound{$counter} === "u") {

if ($tone == "1") { $pinyin .= "ū"; }

if ($tone == "2") { $pinyin .= "ú"; }

if ($tone == "3") { $pinyin .= "ǔ"; }

if ($tone == "4") { $pinyin .= "ù"; }

if ($tone == "5") { $pinyin .= "u"; }

$toneinputted = true;

} else {

$pinyin .= $sound{$counter}; //No vowel found, just copy character

}

}

return $pinyin;

}