<div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">>Thanks for helpful clarification.<br>
><br>>The look-up concept I was trying to describe would always be unidirectional.<br>>(Ideogram => Pinyin)<br>><br>>Although Pinyin can also be used as a text entry method, I did not consider<br>>that as a feature needed for any of the SWORD front-end applications.<br>
><br>>David</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">That would be correct, actually. Pinyin lookup for a Bible module would be essentially meaningless. There are only around 400 total pinyin possibilities to divided among all the many characters (found in the Bible alone, not to mention the language), so it would be meaningless to look up a word for study usage in a module by using Pinyin.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Correct me if I'm wrong here, but your intent is for those of us who might not recognize a character, to be able to look up (and also to show, via a show/hide pinyin function) a character within the text. Right?</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Probably 70% or less of Chinese characters represent a single pinyin + tone spelling (for lack of the results of a thorough study - I would say that is a generous estimate). Those are the easy ones. For the rest of them - 1 character = either pinyin + several tone choices or/and several pinyin choices + their respective tones. These are the difficult ones, and they have to be checked. One comes to mind immediately that has one pronunciation as an adjective ("e" + 4th tone), and another pronunciation ("yan" + 4th tone) as a noun. To make matters ugly, not only do both these words show up in the CUV(S), there are quite a few single verses where they both show up. Same character, two completely different pronunciations. This kind of thing has to be watched for. The poor foreign preacher reading his carefully prepared text and not getting the above character correct is going to get some pretty funny looks.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Some context may be necessary for lookup. In the above example, the character usually occurs within a phrase (a Chinese 'word' sometimes has more than one syllable, though each syllable is one character and can itself be one word - it's convoluted...), and the different pronunciations show up within different phrases. So if you see it combine with one of one set of characters, you know it is pronounced "e4", and with one of a different set of characters it is usually pronounced "yan4", and so on.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Hope that helps...</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Matthew</span></font></div>
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