Creation of hanyu pinyin on top of Chinese characters for Mac OX - Leopard

[Kookoobear]

I am now searching very hard to look for the answer how to create
hanyu pinyin alongside (on top of) Chinese characters for my
Macintosh.

Pls see the sample below

wǒ xiǎng qǐng nǐ zài jīntiān wǎnshang zài fàndiàn chīfàn. (Pinyin)
我 想 請 你在 今天 晚上 在 飯店 吃飯。(Fanti)

wǒ xiǎng qǐng nǐ zài jīntiān wǎnshang zài fàndiàn chīfàn. (Pinyin)
我 想 请 你在 今天 晚上 在 饭店 吃饭。(Jianti)

In the past, I have been using Phonetic Guide in MS Word (Window
environment) for the past few years and I have no problem with
creation of hanyu pinyin on top of the chinese characters. Recently, I
switched to Macintosh OX (Leopard) and I could not find any
functionality in MS Word 2008 that enables to transcript the hanyu
pinyin on top of the Chinese characters.

Would appreciate it very much if someone could point out to me on how
to obtain hanyu pinyin on top of the Chinese characters as displayed
above.

[nienpo]

It's true that MS WORD in Windows can do it better than the
counterpart in Mac OS X with respect to adding pinyin 'Ruby.'

The following are indirect solutions:
1) use VM ware / Parallel / VirtualBox to run WORD of Windows version
along with your other Mac applications;

2) use LaTeX and my script to generate those pinyin automatically from
dictionary
http://exciton.eo.yzu.edu.tw/%7Elab/latex/hakka_latex_introduction.html

Hope this may help.

[Adrian Yap]

Thanks so much for your help.
So, currently, there is no other method to generate hanyu pinyin to be printed on top of the chinese characters. For Macintosh, only Japanese rubi characters can be printed on top of chinese words, right?

So, moving forward, as for your second method, sorry I could not read chinese very well and can you kindly point out some useful instructions on how to generate pinyin to be printed on top of the chinese characters in MS Word 2008 in Leopard?

By the way, what is LaTex?

Your help is very much appreciated!

Adrian Yap

2009/4/27 nienpo <nie...@gmail.com>

[nienpo]

MS WORD in Mac OS X can have the capability to add Ruby text, as long
as you turn it on by using Additional Tools / Microsoft Language
Register (enable Japanese). Then, you can find it under Format >
Phonetic Guide ...
Mine is Office 2004. However, I haven't heard about its improvement
in Mac Office 2008. So, the situation should be similar.

The only drawback is that you have to enter them manually, one by
one. It is why I said it is inferior to Windows version, which can do
it automatically.

As for LaTeX, it is a cross-platform typesetting system. The document
content is entered with the formatting markup instructions together,
similar to the HTML fashion. It's not What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get;
therefore, it has some learning curve to go through. Wikipedia has an
entry for LaTeX:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX

Even though I create those script for LaTeX users, I am not
evangelistic for it here, because I know that many individuals do not
like to use LaTeX.

[TenThousandThings]

If you don't need the text to be Ruby, there are various tools you can
use to transliterate hanzi to pinyin. See here:

http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/romanization.html#transliteration

[Adrian Yap]

Hi
Thanks but at this moment, there is still no hanyu pinyin rubi available for MS Word 2008. Do you know where to find a website to feedback to the Microsoft team?
They need to take it into consideration!!!!

2009/4/27 nienpo <nie...@gmail.com>

[Tofu]

You can use this:

http://www.mandarintools.com/dimsum.html

To convert large blocks of text.

This also may work, but I haven't tried it yet:

http://www.cjkware.com/

TT

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You could also try the free web based 3-Line display:

Chinese to Pinyin/English (pinyin displayed below Chinese characters):
http://www.thepurelanguage.com/freechinesetranslation.aspx

Pinyin to Chinese&English
http://www.thepurelanguage.com/freepinyintranslation.aspx

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