Hi rockhammer!
I am using Vista Ultimate and Word 2000.
I have installed the IME for Simplified Chinese, and that works well.
However, the Ruby (pinyin) text feature (in Format ->Asian Layout ->Phonetic
guide) doesn't work
The MS Knowledge base has a patch for Traditional Chars, but not Simplified.
It is in support.microsoft.com/kb/939398
Do you (or does anyone) know how to get Ruby to work with Simplified Chars
in Vista? Or how to edit the patch in kb?
Thanks.
"rockhammer" <rockhammer@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> First of all, I got an email notification that someone replied to this
> post.
> But I don't see any replies here so, if someone did in fact reply, I would
> much appreciate if you could repost.
>
> Since I posted the question, I found out how to use the mouse to write
> chinese via the Tablet PC Input Panel from these webpages:
>
> http://www.tipandtrick.net/2008/enab...windows-vista/
> http://www.tipandtrick.net/2008/how-...windows-vista/
>
> By replicating the mouse movements & clicks on the touchpad, I can also
> use
> the touchpad to write chinese. However, the shortcoming of going this
> route
> is that:
>
> a) the hand movements required to use the mouse to write what you normally
> use a pen to write feels very unnatural and will certainly hurt your wrist
> after about a dozen or so chinese characters; and
> b) the hand movements required to use the touchpad suffers from the same
> problem as for the mouse but has the additional problem that, between
> strokes, you need to first reposition the mouse pointer to the proper
> location first before continuing to the next stroke - you do indeed need
> to
> do the same when using the mouse but that movement is very natural to
> normal
> mouse usage whereas it is very unnatural for touchpad usage (to me anyway)
>
> The effect of issue (b) is that if I were to use the touchpad like you
> would
> use a writing pad peripheral or an actual tablet pc, all your strokes
> would
> become connected with the resultant line looking like tracing a path
> through
> a maze. In order to avoid that, the mouse pointer needs to be
> repositioned
> to the desired location between strokes.
>
> So the last piece of my puzzle is thus this: how can I configure the
> touchpad such that when I use it as a Tablet PC Input Panel to enter
> chinese
> (or other handwriting) it will behave like a writing pad peripheral while
> behaving like a regular touchpad in other/normal situations?
>
> If anyone has any pointers for that, I would much appreciate it. Thanks.
>
>
>
> "rockhammer" wrote:
> Quote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I am using vista home premium on a laptop with a touchpad. I am trying to
>> find a way to use the touchpad to enter chinese characters (or any
>> language
>> in fact) via the handwriting recognition feature described in
>> http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/v...sta.mspx#EDLAC.
>>
>> If anyone can tell me how to set this up, I would much appreciate. I have
>> essentially zero knowledge in all this - in fact I don't even know how to
>> use
>> the keyboard to enter chinese - so if you can describe from scratch, that
>> would be great. Thanks a lot.
>>