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A pinyin tone color marker?

#1
Is there a software or website that can convert pinyin words, or even better Hanzi words, to their equivalent tone color?

Preferably by adding <font color red>pinyin<font> or something like that. I know the Pinyin tool plugin for Anki does that, but it's too slow for my computer.
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#2
I don't have a program or anything but I was curious because I use colors too. What do you do with tone changes? 你好 for example. I use a colored *. Also, I use purple for 的, 得 and all other non-tones.

加油啊!
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#3
I don't really bother with tones yet. I was aiming to use the color aspect for another reason.

I am using a program that adds pinyin to hanzi words in subtitles for a few days now. It helped me tremendously, just by seperating the words. I'm not at the computer now, so I don't remember the name of the program. But since all words hanzi and pinyin are white, it is confusing to read the subtitles. I figured a tone marking program would make it easier to distinguish them, by either marking either the hanzi or pinyin. As I said, anki does the job, but for a subtitle it takes hours for my pc.

Ps purple is definetly better than black, for subtitles. But for the rest I guess I'll keep the standard colors.
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#4
I just succeeded with this, and wanted to share the results if anyone is interested.

[Image: 2nr3oes.jpg]

I used this website which in turn gave me pinyin in brackets [ and ], that I then simply replaced with the font color codes. It's much easier to read now for me.
Edited: 2011-04-18, 1:58 pm
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