If you're on a mac, I recommend just turning on the built in pinyin input system that is available within system preferences Open up the System preferences app go to Language & Text, then click on the button at the top that says Input Sources, scroll down to Chinese and click the check box for Pinyin - Simplified. Once you have it enabled, you can switch to and from English input and Chinese input.
If you're on windows, Google has their own pinyin input system, and I'm pretty sure it works just like all other systems http://www.google.com/ime/ go to the link and click on simplified Chinese, at this point it will be in Chinese, so just click the download link. The page will show you a little bit about how it works, and lucky for you, it works just like Google translate's pinyin input. When typing in pinyin a "buffer" will display, this is the pop-up box that shows what characters you have entered pinyin for. Simply click on the character you want, and it will be placed into the text area. for Google's input method, just use the left and right arrow keys to select different characters, and use up and down arrow keys to move to the next page of characters. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-translate-general/-/QCfVvPcWCxAJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
