-- Thanks Robert, I'm gradually getting this sorted out. The problem
with the Chinese Character palette was that I didn't realize that
clicking on a character wouldn't place it in the text, like with most
palettes - you have to click 'Insert' as well. So that's that part
solved.
-- I managed to fix the disappearing pinyin (romanization) by
re-installing the additional Asian fonts and restarting the machine.
Still a long way from a full bottle on this, but some progress. Thanks
again.
David Noel
2007 Mar 7
九也主 中丮九
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From: Robert Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 04/03/2007, at 5:17 PM, David Noel wrote:
> -- Has anyone any experience on inputting Chinese characters into a
> Mac, eg into an Appleworks word processing file?
> -- I've found out a certain amount, but can't get past some
> difficulties. With a word processing page, choosing a Chinese font
> such as Beijing used to let me create characters by hitting one or
> two alphabetic characters followed by Return. Now that feature
> seems to have vanished, I just get the roman-font characters. I've
> tried to find a table of key combinations giving particular
> characters, but no luck.
>
> -- The 'Show Character Palette' under the flag menu brings up a
> table of characters,
Under that flag go - open international -> input menu
follow down until you get to S simplified chinese
Check the box of your choice
Then with Appleworks open select under the flag the text you want ...
australian or chinese
It seems you can switch back and forth
clumsy but may do what you want.
> but copying and pasting characters from this into an Appleworks
> document does not work. Also, this palette used to offer the Pinyin
> (romanization) equivalent for a character (eg ma1), but this is now
> always blank for me.
> -- Does anybody know any answers on this, or where to look? I've
> googled many pages, but so far only found ones which describe the
> various input methods and coding schemes used, rather than
> practical stuff on what keys to press to get the ma1 character. TIA.
>
> David Noel
> 2007 March 4
