Punctuation of Chinese goes to the very first of the sentence

[Catholicon]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi there,

Whenever I copy some information from the website, and paste them into the word (office 2008), I get many sentences starting with the punctuations. I have tried every means but they are just there. The only way I can do is to adjust the width of the page...

What shall I do with it? Is there an ideal solution?

Many thanks.

 

[John McGhie]

Try Edit>Paste Special>Unformatted Text...

And make sure there is a SPACE after the punctuation

Chinese authors often omit the space that should be typed after a
punctuation character, or place it before the character. Either will cause
Word to wrap the line badly.

Hope this helps

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi there,

Whenever I copy some information from the website, and paste them into the
word (office 2008), I get many sentences starting with the punctuations. I
have tried every means but they are just there. The only way I can do is to
adjust the width of the page...

What shall I do with it? Is there an ideal solution?

Many thanks.

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[Catholicon]

Thanks for the reply. However it doesn't work. If I pasted the text in unformatted way, many punctuations will show up as small squares, and can't be read.

If I turn all the text into Song, the most common font type for Chinese, all the punctuations are recognisable, but many of them will be in the very beginning of a sentence.

There is a difference between English and Chinese punctuations. When we type Chinese in word 2003 (or 2007) we don't need to type a space after the punctuation, and if we type, the space between the punctuation and the following character is too large, and that's not the accepted way.

Do hope a better solution can come out. Thanks again.

PS. the punctuation problem doesn't exist in Pages.

 

[John McGhie]

Yes, I am aware of the difference between the Chinese and English
punctuation (I keep trying to help my friend in Wuhan to type English
punctuation!!). There's actually special space you can use that is the
correct width.

I suspect this issue is because Chinese Language is not supported in Mac
Office, but I can't be sure.

The Word English line-wrapping algorithm looks for "breakable white space"
and favours that when computing its line-ends. That rule would need to be
changed for Chinese.

Currently there is no support for Chinese in Mac Office, and I suspect
that's because in China they would only get "paid" for one copy

Someone suggested that Microsoft may be about to develop copy protection for
the Microsoft Mac software.

I am not sure that they could develop copy protection strong enough to slow
down the Chinese hackers! However, until they do, it does not make
commercial sense to Microsoft's shareholders to invest in developing a
Chinese version

Cheers

Thanks for the reply. However it doesn't work. If I pasted the text in
unformatted way, many punctuations will show up as small squares, and can't be
read.

If I turn all the text into Song, the most common font type for Chinese, all
the punctuations are recognisable, but many of them will be in the very
beginning of a sentence.

There is a difference between English and Chinese punctuations. When we type
Chinese in word 2003 (or 2007) we don't need to type a space after the
punctuation, and if we type, the space between the punctuation and the
following character is too large, and that's not the accepted way.

Do hope a better solution can come out. Thanks again.

PS. the punctuation problem doesn't exist in Pages.

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[thg]

There is some info on using Office for Chinese here:

<http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/applications.html#Office_2008>

I suggest you also post your question in the Chinese Mac group:

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

 

[John McGhie]

Yeah, but that information only tells you how to enable the Japanese
language features (which are helpful in Chinese).

However, this poster's question relates to the hyphenation and
line-wrapping, which requires the spelling checker to be running in Chinese,
which currently it can't.

Cheers

There is some info on using Office for Chinese here:

<http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/applications.html#Office_2008>

I suggest you also post your question in the Chinese Mac group:

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

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