readMe.md

1 Description: This is a simple and short command-line tool that converts short Chinese-character strings(titles of books, articles or journals) to pinyin. It's purpose is to facilitate generating Chinese citations or bibiliograph in the English setting.

2 Internal Steps

It first tokenizes the Chinese strings using Jieba, and then output the corresponding pinyin via pypinyin's lazy_pinyin.

• input: Chinese characters (it accepts both traditional and simplified Chinese)
• output: pinyin strings

There are two possible outputs:

• 1. the sentence style, which means only the first letter of the first word is capitalized.
• 2. the headline style, in which the first letters of all tokens are capitalized. The default is the sentence style. You can use --head to output in the headline style

3 usage:

pinyinlize <Chinese_text> [--head]

eg: 

pinyinlize "清代基層地方官人事嬗遞現象之量化分析"  

output: "Qingdai jiceng difangguan renshi shandi xianxiang zhi lianghua fenxi"

4 Installation

pip install pinyinlize

5 future plans To include a API call to Crossref and an option to output DOI or bibtex for the article or book input.