Phonetic guide text

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Phonetic guide text

I want to add pinyin to Chinese character and I’ve read about phonetic guide text, but I don’t understand why it doesn’t appear (I use pages) in the options after I click-control

MacBook

Posted on Nov 21, 2020 6:34 AM

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Noah1308 Author

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Nov 23, 2020 12:06 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

When I tried to add the language in file>advance>language and regions as explained in the guide it did’t work.

I was able to enable the phonetic guide by adding the language in system preferences>languages and region.

Thank you very much for trying to help me!^^

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Tom Gewecke

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Nov 21, 2020 8:16 AM in response to Noah1308

PS If still no luck, try adding a Japanese keyboard in system prefs > keyboard > input sources.

You should not have to do this, of course, but sometimes it forces phonetic guides out of wherever they are hiding...

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Tom Gewecke

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Nov 21, 2020 7:22 AM in response to Noah1308

Have you followed all the directions in this guide?

https://support.apple.com/guide/pages/use-phonetic-guides-tana3a61f9d3/mac

Let us know the version of MacOS and the version of Pages you are using.

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Noah1308 Author

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Nov 21, 2020 7:21 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Yes, I have. The option simply doesn’t appear. When I click-control there is convert to this and that and others, but not this one

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Tom Gewecke

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Nov 21, 2020 7:40 AM in response to Noah1308

How about if you select your text and then do Format > Phonetic Guide Text?

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Tom Gewecke

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Nov 23, 2020 12:19 PM in response to Noah1308

Noah1308 wrote:

I was able to enable the phonetic guide by adding the language in system preferences>languages and region.

Thanks for that useful info!

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