Ulrich Ruess <utde@ms13.hinet.net> さんは書きました:
I think it is quite easy to add a new input method to SCIM which enables you to input these characters. That would probably be the most efficient way for you to input these characters as you are using SCIM anyway. I have to update the SuSE SCIM packages anyway, I'll have a look whether I can add something like that.
Before you do this, please consider that for pinyin input you do not need these characters, since the "tone" is already mapped to some characters on the keyboard (mostly the keys 1 to 5). The result of a pinyin input on the keyboard is a Chinese character and not it's pinyin representation. If you want the pinyin (with the tone marks) appear on the screen, you use your normal alphabet input. These accented characters are only for typesetting of pinyin in the Latin alphabet.
If I understood Philip right, this is exactly what he wants to do, he wants to typeset pinyin in the Latin alphabet. But his keyboard doesn't have these characters, therefore he needs an input method. "Compose" would qualify as a suitable input method according to Philip, but unfortunately "Compose" cannot be used together with any other XIM like SCIM.
Tone input for pinyin becomes less and less important as the quality of sentence analyzing programs increases.
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