1 .TH GPINYIN @MAN1EXT@ "@MDATE@" "Groff Version @VERSION@"
3 gpinyin \- Chinese European-like writing within groff
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13 Copyright \[co] 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
15 This file is part of gpinyin, which is part of groff, a free software
18 You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
19 General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software
22 The license text is available in the internet at
23 .UR http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
28 This file was written by Bernd Warken <groff-bernd.warken-72@web.de>.
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35 .ie t .ds EL \f[S]\N'188'\f[P]
36 .el .ds EL \&.\|.\|.\&\
37 .\" ie t .char \[Ellipsis] \f[S]\N'188'\f[P]
38 .\" el .char \[Ellipsis] \&.\|.\|.\&\
39 .\" called with \[Ellipsis]
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49 .OP \& "\%filespec \*(EL"
52 .BR "gpinyin -h" | --help
54 .BR "gpinyin -v" | --version
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61 This is a preprocesor for
62 .BR \%groff (@MAN1EXT@).
64 It allows to add the Chinese European-like language
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76 .SS "Breaking Options"
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81 when the program just writes the information that was asked for and
84 All other arguments will be ignored by that.
91 .B -h\~\fR|\fB\~--help
92 Print help information with a short explanation of options to standard
97 .B -v\~\fR|\fB\~--version
98 Print version information to standard output.
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102 .SS "Filespec Options"
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105 So far, there are only
114 arguments are file names or the minus sign
118 As usual, the argument
120 can be used in order to let all following arguments mean file names,
121 even if the names begin with a minus character
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134 requests with different arguments.
136 The starting request is
148 and the ending request is
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167 is used for writing the Chinese language in a European-like
170 The Chinese language consists of more than 400 syllables, each with
171 one of 5 different tones.
175 such toned syllables can be appended to word-like connections.
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182 The Chinese language is based on about 411 defined
185 .UR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin_table
192 each syllable consists of 1 to 6 European-like letters, the normal
193 ASCII characters in upper and lower case, the only unusual characters
195 .BR "U dieresis " ( umlaut )
204 all ASCII letters are written as usual.
209 can be written as either as
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223 Each syllable has exactly one of 5 defined
226 The 5th tone is not written at all, but each tone 1 to 4 is written
227 as an accent above a defined vowel within the syllable.
231 In the source file, these tones are written by adding a number 0 to 5
232 after the syllable name.
236 In each writing, the tone numbers 1 to 4 are transformed into accents
241 The 1st tone is the horizontal macron
244 similar to a minus or sub character, but on top of the vowel.
246 In each source file, write the 1st tone as
251 The 2nd tone is the accute accent
255 In each source file, write the 2nd tone as
260 The 3rd tone is the caron sign,
263 which looks a bit like a small
267 In each source file, write the 3rd tone as
272 The 4th tone is the grave accent
276 In each source file, write the 4th tone as
281 The 5th tone is the no-tone.
283 The numbers 0 and 5 can be used for the
288 number can be omitted, when the syllable is the end of some word.
290 But within a word of syllables, one of the
292 numbers 0 or 5 must be written.
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300 .BR \%groff (@MAN1EXT@)
302 .BR \%grog (@MAN1EXT@)
304 .BR \%groffer (@MAN1EXT@)
305 Man\-pages with section
310 They can be called with either
322 .BR \%groff (@MAN7EXT@)
324 .BR \%groff_char (@MAN7EXT@)
325 Man\-pages with section
330 They can be called with either
335 .BI "groffer 7" " name"
342 Internet documents related to
347 .UR http://\:en.wikipedia.org/\:wiki/\:Pinyin
352 .UR http://\:en.wikipedia.org/\:wiki/\:Pinyin_table
357 .UR http://\;www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/\:course_resources/\:s02/\:\
359 .I Unicode vowels for Pinyin
363 .UR http://\:www.foolsworkshop.com/\:ptou/\:index.html
364 .IR pinyin to Unicode
368 .UR http://\:www.mandarintools.com/
369 .I Online Chinese Tools
373 .UR http://\:www.pinyin.info/\:index.html
374 .I Main pinyin website
378 .UR http://\:www.pinyin.info/\:rules/\:where.html
379 .I Where do the tone marks go?
383 .UR http://\:git.savannah.gnu.org/\:gitweb/\:\
384 ?p=cjk.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/\:pinyin.txt;hb=HEAD
389 .UR http://\:git.savannah.gnu.org/\:gitweb/\:\
390 ?p=cjk.git;a=blob_plain;f=texinput/p\:inyin.sty;hb=HEAD
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