Today I’ve spent almost the entire day, from 7:30 am to 22:20 pm, working on my coloring of vowels. Fun. Borderline crazy. Total obsession. But I guess that’s the only way to get things done.

And I have to say, it’s b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l ! A total beauty. I love it.

The most difficut part was to get the text to copy. That’s probably something anyone is taking for granted. Copy, Paste, Print. But to get “copy the whole page into the clipboard” to work, that alone did cost me around 8 hours, and I had to leave it at copying the whole page. I tried a many ways, and also a few well-established 3rd party solutions (such as highlightjs and quilljs) but to no avail. At times I felt a bit like Bilbo in the Mirkwood – with some Elves somewhere having a picknick, singing merry tunes all along.

On the upside, it now copies nicely into rich text apps like Apple Pages and TextEdit – and maybe even Microsoft Word (who knows?) – and there the colored text can be printed or edited further.

You can play with Pīnyīn Tone Vowel Coloring here: alfonsgrabher.com/pinyin-colors