Hi Skritter Team,

I had a feature request...which you guys would be absolute legends if you could implement.

I have recently bought this book on colloquial Chinese: 汉语口语常用句式例解. What I was hoping to do is add some of the sentence structures into Skritter:

e.g. 说什么也得••••••

Unfortunately, Skritter does not allow me to enter in that symbol "•" in the pinyin section or even put a "." if it is at the end of phrase.

My question on this example is two fold:

1) are you able to make it that this symbol "•" is allowed to be put in the pinyin section;
2) or if you are not able to use that symbol, could you please allow full stops to be put after letters when adding new sentence structures into Pinyin.

My second example is related to this sentence structure:

e.g. A 也不是，B也不是

Are you able to make it that Skritter alows commas and roman letters?

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
Joe

I think there's no need to put trailing ellipses to indicate that something comes after the word, because that's how most words and phrases normally work. If the grammar pattern contains a gap in the middle, then you can use ellipses in the pinyin (but still not in the characters).

It's hairy to allow extra characters and positions within readings, so we prefer to keep it as simple as possible like this. Within the writings, it's such a pain that we just skip all of that. So for "A 也不是，B也不是", you could put in "也不是" or "也不是也不是", but it wouldn't be very helpful to study. I would recommend putting some actual nouns in for A and B (and not studying the writing for that phrase/sentence). This is something like what the example sentence function will allow you to do a little later on: study any example sentence's reading and definition items.