Re: How can I add Chinese tone marks to romanized words?
Don Ellis
<drums...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>How can I add Chinese tone marks to romanized words?
What romanization system are you using?
Don
drumsinger
Don Ellis
Sorry I'm a bit late... very busy day, but I did have time this
morning to take a look at one of my wife's Mandarin books.
It was Berlitz and I don't know if they're using the Yale system and I
can't find the book now and Leela's not home (life is complicated).
But what I saw was left and right angled accents, a small "v" above an
"e" and the straight line you use for a long vowel... in other words,
nothing particularly unusual.
In Word 2007, you use Symbol on the Menu Bar, choose More Symbols,
navigate to a particular letter you want -- let's say an "a" with a
straight line above it, highlight it and click the Shortcut Key. Then
assign it a shortcut such as Alt-Ctrl-a.
Then you use that when you arrive at that character in your text.
Obviously with "a", you're going to have three or four diacritical
marks -- left slant, right slant, straight line, maybe even a small
"v". So choose the same system for all your vowels (a, e, i, o, u),
i.e. Alt-[letter] for left slant, Ctrl-[letter] for right slant, etc.
If you know all this and were looking for something even simpler, I'll
admit I don't know any other way. This is what I used to do with
Cantonese.
Cheers,
Don
Don Ellis
I sympathize. I was a WordPerfect user for 20 years... even in the
office I would write in WordPerfect and convert to Word before sharing
my files. But as you said, everyone is on Word these days... and Word
2007 was finally so attractive that I switched. End of an era.
You sound like you know what you're doing, but to complete my
suggestion, I would probably use this approach:
Alt-[letter] for left slant
Ctrl-[letter] for right slant
Alt-Ctrl-[letter] for straight line
Alt-Ctrl-Shft-[letter] for small "v"
Good luck.
Don
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:14:01 -0700, drumsinger
<drums...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Dear Don,
>
>Thank you so much--I will try it right away. I used to use WordPerfect,
>which was much easier to use for such things, but now everything is in Word.
>
>Yours,
>Francesca
Suzanne S. Barnhill
grave accents; for example, the shortcut for é is Ctrl+', e. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm for a list of these
and others.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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