With at least Mandarin, you can do even better and include the tone marks over the vowels.
On a Mac (recent OS), you just need to hold the vowel down and you'll get a list with diacritics. Unfortunately, that doesn't work for the umlaut/trema in combination with a tone mark, though. For shortcuts, use the US Extended keyboard, activated as System preferences > language & text > input sources. On that tab, also make sure "keyboard & character viewer" and "show input menu in menu bar" are checked. Then you can go to the flag and select "show keyboard viewer" for assistance on getting the keys. For the trema (umlaut), use "v", as in alt + e followed by v. On Windows, one way to get the umlaut/trema is to activate the US-International keyboard input. See http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codeint.html for Windows 7/Vista. With the international keyboard activated, type the quotation mark (shift apostrophe) followed by "u". Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to get all the tone marks with a keyboard, though. Carlinga is freeware that requires no installation (you start it up when you want to use it) that provides easy-to-use key combinations for typing all kinds of characters. See http://catology.boisset.eu/Carlinga. HTH Ben Barrett Seattle, WA Learn Ainu! https://sites.google.com/site/aynuitak1/videos On Aug 5, 2013, at 4:29 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi. I am studying Chinese. I want to create cards with umlauts. Is there an > easy way to do this other than pasting from text file - like a keyboard > shortcut? Thanks very much -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/CB88DF7D-FFA4-435D-A36A-83C3CCE5B5E9%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
