Darwine and NJStar Chinese WP 5.20

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Darwine and NJStar Chinese WP 5.20

I'm running Darwine 0.9.53, and have NJStar Chinese Word Processor 5.20 installed. Whenever I try to run it, however, a popup goes up saying "Debugger detected 304" and I have to click OK. Can anyone:
1. Help me solve this problem
2. Find me another word processor that can automatically add pinyin text on top of the Chinese character for the entire document

Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Mar 7, 2008 6:29 AM

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imacintosher Author

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Mar 7, 2008 6:57 AM in response to imacintosher

Also, can anyone help me with firefox on Darwine? I can click the buttons, but I can't see them.

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BDAqua

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Mar 7, 2008 10:52 AM in response to imacintosher

Hi... no idea, but I'll see if I can find some help. 🙂

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Tom Gewecke

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Mar 7, 2008 11:40 AM in response to imacintosher

2. Find me another word processor that can automatically add pinyin text on top of the Chinese character for the entire document

I suspect darwine is pretty hopeless. But for 2, I would suggest you ask in the Chinese-mac user group:

http://groups.google.com/group/chinesemac/

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Tom Gewecke

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Mar 7, 2008 1:34 PM in response to imacintosher

another word processor that can automatically add pinyin text on top of the Chinese character for the entire document

Word 2008 may be able to do it:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6723460&#6723460

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imacintosher Author

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Mar 7, 2008 6:56 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks, I'll try asking them. But all the other windows programs I use on Darwine (e.g. Firefox and a bunch others that I've tried) work fine. Still seeing if anyone can offer more help (or if Google Groups can find me another wp).

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imacintosher Author

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Mar 7, 2008 7:58 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

That's a forum about Japanese...

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Tom Gewecke

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Mar 7, 2008 8:34 PM in response to imacintosher

That's a forum about Japanese...

The link I gave you about word 2008 referred to both Japanese and Chinese. Unfortunately I missed where one of the posters said "None of the Mac versions of MS Word support automatic phonetic guides for simplified (pinyin) or traditional (bopomofo) Chinese, as far as I know." I don't have Word 2008 so I can't verify that. Japanese furigana apparently does work automatically.

The forum where I suggested you ask is for Chinese, not Japanese:

http://groups.google.com/group/chinesemac/

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imacintosher Author

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Mar 7, 2008 9:48 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Maybe somebody could give me an older version of NJStar? I've read somewhere that NJStar 4.0 beta was freeware, and that the error was to keep people from pirating NJStar or something.

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imacintosher Author

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Mar 7, 2008 10:10 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks for replying.

That's a forum about Japanese...

The link I gave you about word 2008 referred to both Japanese and Chinese. Unfortunately I missed where one of the posters said "None of the Mac versions of MS Word support automatic phonetic guides for simplified (pinyin) or traditional (bopomofo) Chinese, as far as I know." I don't have Word 2008 so I can't verify that. Japanese furigana apparently does work automatically.

Word isn't out yet, so even if it can add pinyin to all the Chinese characters, I don't see how I can use it.

The forum where I suggested you ask is for Chinese, not Japanese:

http://groups.google.com/group/chinesemac/

Yes, I know, I'm asking them. Waiting for a reply. Can you find older versions of NJStar (in case they work)?

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imacintosher Author

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Mar 8, 2008 12:51 AM in response to imacintosher

I've also asked NJStar, in case they can help.

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Tom Gewecke

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Mar 8, 2008 5:32 AM in response to imacintosher

Word isn't out yet

Office 2008 for Mac was released for sale in the US nearly two months ago.

Sorry, I don't know anything about NJStar or other windows software for Chinese. These pages may be of interest:

http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/study_tools.html
http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/windows.html
http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/applications.html#suites

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imacintosher Author

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Mar 8, 2008 6:38 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Office 2008 for Mac was released for sale in the US nearly two months ago.

It was?! How come I can't find a place to download the trial in Microsoft's website?

Sorry, I don't know anything about NJStar or other windows software for Chinese.

I just want something like:
zhong wen
中﹣﹣﹣﹣﹣文
(hyphens are supposed to be spaces)
Do you get what I mean with a program that automatically adds the pinyin on top of the words?

I don't have anymore "helpful" left. =(

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Tom Gewecke

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Mar 8, 2008 6:52 AM in response to imacintosher

It was?! How come I can't find a place to download the trial in Microsoft's website?

They have not released a free trial yet, unfortunately.

Do you get what I mean with a program that automatically adds the pinyin on top of the words?

Yes, it is the same as the Japanese Furigana issue. The link I gave you earlier says that the automatic Furigana issue is fixed in Mac Word 2008 but the pinyin/bopomofo issue is not. Whether Win Word does automatic pinyin/bopomofo I don't know.

You might look at MacKey. Another link I gave you above says "MacKEY 5 can display Hanyu Pinyin or various Cantonese transcriptions alongside Chinese character texts."

http://www.cjkware.com/

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imacintosher Author

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Mar 8, 2008 7:41 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

You might look at MacKey. Another link I gave you above says "MacKEY 5 can display >Hanyu Pinyin or various Cantonese transcriptions alongside Chinese character >texts."

http://www.cjkware.com/

Thanks, I haven't had time to read everything on the links you gave me. Might be my solution, though.

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imacintosher Author

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Mar 8, 2008 8:16 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Can anyone find me njcwp503sw51208.exe? On the NJStar site they said they've fixed the issue with that release.

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