Pinyin Typist for iOS

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**Pnyn Typist lets you quickly and easily type Pnyn with tone marks while using Apples system keyboards, and it lets you benefit from their...

**Pnyn Typist lets you quickly and easily type Pnyn with tone marks while using Apples system keyboards, and it lets you benefit from their features, like QuickType, Text Replacement, etc., as well as future enhancements. Pnyn Typist similarly works with third-party keyboards like Fleksy, etc.**Pnyn makes reading and writing Mandarin Chinese as quick and easy as it ought to be, and Pnyn Typist makes typing real, professional-quality Pnyn as quick and easy as *it* ought to be.Pnyn Typist was the first iOS Pnyn typing app, and its still the best, especially for typing more than a word or two of Pnyn.On the iPad, the iPhone, and the iPod touch, Pnyn Typist is *noticeably* the quickest, easiest, most natural, most fun, and most beautifully iOS-native way to type exactly the Pnyn you want, with proper tone marks.Its *nice, big* tone mark, , hyphen, and apostrophe buttons work with *just a simple tap*, using the same rhythm and technique as regular typing.*It even puts the tone marks over the right vowels for you*, and *it also makes it easy to make corrections to tone marks without backspacing and retyping*.Pnyn Typist turns typing Pnyn from a pain into a pleasure.Pnyn Typist launches quickly, so with it on your Apple mobile device, you can quickly and easily type real Pnyn text to write down anything you hear or want to say in Mandarin, just about anytime the need arises or inspiration strikes. Pnyn Typist is thus a must-have app if you are learning or teaching Mandarin, or if sometimes you want or need to write down Mandarin expressions, but you or the one(s) youre writing to dont (or dont want to have to) know all the Chinese characters involved. (THIS APP IS NOT AN ALTERNATIVE WAY TO TYPE CHINESE CHARACTERSit supports the standard iOS ways of typing characters.)Note that like Chinese Braille (which is based on Pnyn), Pnyn is a *full writing system* for Mandarin, not just a pronunciation aid. And since, as linguists hold, speech is primary and writing is secondary, its good that Pnyn just works and lets you focus on speech, on *communicating*.All the text in the Pnyn Typing tab view can be copied with a single tap of the Copy button, and then pasted in other apps, e.g. Pages, Word, Twitter, Messages, Skype, Vesper, etc. (iOSs standard copying and pasting methods work too.)Pnyn Typists sharing functionality lets you share Pnyn, etc. text in the various ways enabled by iOS, including email, Messages, AirDrop, Twitter, Facebook, Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo, etc.Pnyn Typists 1,2, and 4 tone buttons can also be used to add diacritical tone marks for Cantonese Yale romanization.*TYPING PNYN IN PNYN TYPIST*Type a tap the 3rd tone button = Type ai tap the 4th tone button = i(not a!) After i or a, tap the 4th tone button = iPnyn Typist can convert both lowercase and uppercase vowels. All the Pnyn Typist toolbar buttons enter typographically correct Unicode characters, making Pnyn Typist suitable for typing Pnyn for professional uses.Pnyn Typist works well with hardware keyboards.*OTHER FEATURES* Pnyn Typist can be used in both portrait and landscape orientations. The size of the text in the Pnyn Typing tab view can be quickly and easily adjusted with a sliderall the better for seeing those little Pnyn tone marks. The text in the Pnyn Typing tab view (and its size) can be saved as a snippet for future use, with a title that you can choose. A snippet can be shared in the various ways enabled by iOS. An optional Night Theme is available. Different fonts can be selected for the text in the Pnyn Typing tab view.*PNYN TEXT WITH FORMATTING*Pnyn Typist produces Unicode plain text, which can be used to produce Markdown, HTML, CSS, etc. code. When such code is rendered in supporting environments, formatting can be seen thats like the formatting seen in web pages.