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imron -
I've recently bought a Macbook Pro, and have been playing around with a few things, one of which
is the feature which allows you to create user defined Input Methods.
Attached is a zip file containing a text file I created which creates an input method for typing
pinyin with tone marks. Just unzip it, and then see here for instructions on how to generate the
input method. You may need to restart OSX before you can use it.
It's not as nice as a fully-fledged input method, but it will do in a pinch, and is far more
convenient than firing up a webpage. Now I have a Mac, i'll probably get around to porting
Pinyinput to OSX once I find some time.
A couple of things to note:
*You can only type one syllable at a time - this appears to be limitation of the automatically
generated input methods.
*Type space to finish the syllable. If you type return, the syllable disappears. I'm sure there's
probably a setting that will change this, but the documentation for auto-generated input methods
is rather sparse.
*Neutral tones are typed using 5 rather than 0 or just no number. This is so that when the
selection box comes up, the numbers will correspond to the correct tones (otherwise, the neutral
tone was coming up as number 1). Other tones are typed using their respective numbers.
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[欧阳江] -
I usually do like this.
imron -
Yeah, the problem I found with that though is:
1) I don't want to remember arbitrary key combinations. Typing pin1yin1 seems so much more natural
than p
2) I don't normally have US extended as one of the available keyboard layouts, and if I'm going to
add a new layout just to type pinyin, then I'd rather have one specifically for pinyin, rather
than an arbitrary layout.
3) I don't want to have to think about which vowel takes the tone mark. Using a custom Input
Method means the tone mark is put in the correct place automatically.
muyongshi -
Quote:
from this thread
For all the mac users out there...
There is a great (free) pinyin with tone marks input method called biaoyin. It can be found at
http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/romanization.html
Hope this is useful as well!
From the way you describe it this one seems a lot like the one you have been using Imron. Download
the file and then using the ITABC standard input you generate an IM plug-in and restart. No funny
combinations to remember just pin1yin1 and there you go. Gives the option of capitalization as
well. Can only do one word at a time and no other special gimmicks. The vowel placement is
automatic as well.
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