{"id":4610,"date":"2011-07-16T11:55:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T03:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=4610"},"modified":"2011-08-25T13:17:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T05:17:28","slug":"mac-app-for-writing-pinyin-with-tone-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2011\/mac-app-for-writing-pinyin-with-tone-marks\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS app for writing Pinyin with tone marks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who, unlike me, own an iPhone, an iPad, or an iPod Touch may find the new <a href=\"http:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/pinyintypist\/\">Pinyin Typist<\/a> Mac application of use. <\/p>\n<p>Taffy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tailingua.com\/\">Tailingua<\/a> had a look at this for me. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve had a play with the Pinyin application and I&#8217;m generally quite positive about it. It&#8217;s clean, unfussy, and gets the job done. The automatic positioning looks to be flawless (i.e. typing zhuang1 gives you zhu?ng, not zh?ang)&#8230;. Overall though I like it, as it does what it set out to do without any showboating or unnecessary steps (excepting apostrophes).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although I wish the apostrophe and hyphen were right there on the main screen instead of on a secondary one, the program allows people to do what they need to do: type Pinyin with tone marks. <\/p>\n<p>It <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/pinyin-typist\/id443069995?mt=8\">sells for <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">US$3.99<\/span> US$2.99<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>[Headline changed from &#8220;Mac app for writing Pinyin with tone marks&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who, unlike me, own an iPhone, an iPad, or an iPod Touch may find the new Pinyin Typist Mac application of use. Taffy of Tailingua had a look at this for me. I&#8217;ve had a play with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2011\/mac-app-for-writing-pinyin-with-tone-marks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,113,106,28,32,20,19,38,105,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-computers","category-hanyu","category-languages","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-romanization","category-software","category-tone-marks","category-writing-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4610"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4733,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions\/4733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}