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.TH gpinyin @MAN1EXT@ "@MDATE@" "groff @VERSION@"
.SH Name
gpinyin \- use Hanyu Pinyin Chinese in
.I groff
documents
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.SH Synopsis
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.SY gpinyin
.RI [ file\~ .\|.\|.]
.YS
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.SY gpinyin
.B \-h
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.SY gpinyin
.B \-\-help
.YS
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.SY gpinyin
.B \-v
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.SY gpinyin
.B \-\-version
.YS
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.SH Description
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.I gpinyin
is a preprocessor for
.MR groff @MAN1EXT@
that facilitates use of Hanyu Pinyin in
.MR groff @MAN7EXT@
files.
.
Pinyin is a method for writing the Mandarin Chinese language with the
Latin alphabet.
.
Mandarin consists of more than four hundred base syllables,
each spoken with one of five different tones.
.
Changing the tone applied to the syllable generally alters the meaning
of the word it forms.
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In Pinyin,
a syllable is written in the Latin alphabet and a numeric tone indicator
can be appended to each syllable.
.
.
.P
Each
.I input-file
is a file name or the character
.RB \[lq] \- \[rq]
to indicate that the standard input stream should be read.
.
As usual,
the argument
.RB \[lq] \-\- \[rq]
can be used in order to force interpretation of all remaining arguments
as file names,
even if an
.I input-file
argument begins with a
.RB \[lq] \- \[rq].
.
.B \-h
and
.B \-\-help
display a usage message,
while
.B \-v
and
.B \-\-version
show version information;
all exit afterward.
.
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.SS "Pinyin sections"
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.
Pinyin sections in
.I groff
files are enclosed by two
.B .pinyin
requests with different arguments.
.
The starting request is
.RS
.EX
\&.pinyin start
.EE
.RE
or
.RS
.EX
\&.pinyin begin
.EE
.RE
and the ending request is
.RS
.EX
\&.pinyin stop
.EE
.RE
or
.RS
.EX
\&.pinyin end
.EE
.RE
\&.
.
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.SS Syllables
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In Pinyin,
each syllable is represented by one to six letters drawn from the
fifty-two upper- and lowercase letters of the Unicode basic Latin
character set,
plus the letter \[lq]U\[rq] with dieresis (umlaut) in both cases\[em]in
other words,
the members of the set \[lq][a\[en]zA\[en]Z\[:u]\[:U]]\[rq].
.
.
.P
In
.I groff
input,
all basic Latin letters are written as themselves.
.
The \[lq]u with dieresis\[rq] can be written as
\[lq]\e[:u]\[rq]
in lowercase or
\[lq]\e[:U]\[rq]
in uppercase.
.
Within
.B .pinyin
sections,
.I gpinyin
supports the form
\[lq]ue\[rq]
for lowercase and the forms
\[lq]Ue\[rq]
and
\[lq]UE\[rq]
for uppercase.
.
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.SS Tones
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Each syllable has exactly one of five
.IR tones .
.
The fifth tone is not explicitly written at all,
but each of the first through fourth tones is indicated with a diacritic
above a specific vowel within the syllable.
.
.
.P
In a
.I gpinyin
source file,
these tones are written by adding a numeral in the range 0 to 5 after
the syllable.
.
The tone numbers 1 to 4 are transformed into accents above vowels in the
output.
.
The tone numbers 0 and 5 are synonymous.
.
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.P
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.if n .if '\*[.T]'utf8' .nr gpinyin*do-table 1
.\" XXX: One hack necessitates another; since our table is conditional,
.\" we need to save the input line counter.
.nr gpinyin*.c \n[.c]
.ie \n[gpinyin*do-table] \{\
The tones are written as follows.
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.P
.\" XXX: This is so gross.  Why can't grops and gropdf figure this out?
.if t .ds a- \za\[a-]
.if n .ds a- \[a a-]
.if t .ds a< \za\[ah]
.if n .ds a< \[a ah]
.if t .ne 8 \" Try to keep the table on one page for printed output.
.TS
l l l l l.
Tone	Description	Diacritic	Example Input	Example Output
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first	flat	\[a-]	ma1	m\*[a-]
second	rising	\[aa]	ma2	m\[a aa]
third	falling-rising	\[ah]	ma3	m\*[a<]
fourth	falling	\[ga]	ma4	m\[a ga]
fifth	neutral	(none)	ma0	ma
\^	\^	\^	ma5	\^
.TE
.\}
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.el \{\
[The tone mark table is omitted from this rendering of the man page
because the selected output device \[lq]\*[.T]\[rq] lacks the character
repertoire to display it.
.
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.\}
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.P
The neutral tone number can be omitted from a word-final syllable,
but not otherwise.
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.SH Authors
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.
.I gpinyin
was written by
.MT groff\-bernd\:.warken\-72@\:web\:.de
Bernd Warken
.ME .
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.SH "See also"
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Useful documents on the World Wide Web related to Pinyin include
.RS 4n
.UR http://\:www\:.foolsworkshop\:.com/\:ptou/\:index\:.html
.I Pinyin to Unicode
.UE ,
.
.br
.UR http://\:www\:.mandarintools\:.com/
.I On-line Chinese Tools \" sic: On-line
.UE ,
.
.br
.\" XXX: Turning off adjustment like this is ugly; thanks to meter-long
.\" URLs we need an escape sequence that selectively disables adjustment
.\" at the end of a word.
.na
.UR http://\:www\:.pinyin\:.info/\:index\:.html
.I Pinyin.info: a guide to the writing of Mandarin Chinese in \
romanization
.UE ,
.ad \*[AD]
.
.br
.UR http://\:www\:.pinyin\:.info/\:rules/\:where.html
\[lq]Where do the tone marks go?\[rq]
.UE ,
.
.br
.UR http://\:git\:.savannah\:.gnu\:.org/\:gitweb/\:\
?p=cjk\:.git\:;a=blob_plain\:;f=doc/\:pinyin\:.txt\:;hb=HEAD
.I pinyin.txt
from the CJK macro package for \*[TeX]
.UE ,
.br
.RS -4n
and
.RE
.
.br
.\" XXX: Same ugliness as before.
.na
.UR http://\:git\:.savannah\:.gnu\:.org/\:gitweb/\:\
?p=cjk\:.git\:;a=blob_plain\:;f=texinput/\:pinyin\:.sty\:;hb=HEAD
.I pinyin.sty
from the CJK macro package for \*[TeX]
.UE .
.ad \*[AD]
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.RE
.
.
.P
.MR groff @MAN1EXT@
and
.MR grog @MAN1EXT@
explain how to view
.I roff
documents.
.
.
.P
.MR groff @MAN7EXT@
and
.MR groff_char @MAN7EXT@
are comprehensive references covering the language elements of GNU
.I troff \" GNU
and the available glyph repertoire,
respectively.
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