New Resources: Good News Brochure (Pīnyīn-English, Web, Scriptures) Pages
While there have been 3-line PDFs for the Good News brochure available on 3lines.org for a while now, these files are Letter/A4 size, and, especially combined with the font sizes chosen for the text in them, this makes them less than ideal for mobile devices like the iPhone. Even on an iPad, many may find the text in these particular files too small to be comfortably readable without inconvenient zooming and panning.
Also, the PDF format is rooted in the print world, and it is not the native format of the web browser you would use to go to a website like 3lines.org. Thus, while PDF files can be downloaded, and often even viewed, with a web browser, they still represent some added complexity.
So, I have come up with a new set of resources for the Good News brochure that should help with the above:
- Good News Brochure
(Pīnyīn-English, Web, Scriptures) - Good News Brochure
(Pīnyīn-English, Web, Scriptures, Night Theme)
(black background, gray text) - (Short link: tiandi.info/fg)
To start with, material is available on these new resources covering from the front cover to the end of Lesson 1 of the Good News brochure. The full text in Pīnyīn-English of the cited scriptures is included.
More background information can be found in the Introductions of these new web pages:
Pīnyīn, With English Ruby Text
This material contains text from the Chinese Good News brochure, written in Pīnyīn. It also includes English ruby text that has been bundled with the Pīnyīn text that it shows the meaning of. Thus, this material provides us Mandarin-learners with assistance in the two language aspects we require in order to be able to discuss or study the Good News brochure with someone in Mandarin:
- The pronunciations of the Mandarin words used
- These show us how to communicate the brochure’s message in Mandarin.
- The meanings of the Mandarin words used
- These show us what is being communicated in Mandarin.
Advantages of the Web Format
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Pīnyīn is a Good, Workable Writing System On Its Own
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Disclaimer
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Translation and Proofreading
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Offline Viewing
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Updates and Other Information
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The below-listed Pīnyīn-only resources will continue to be available as well:
- Good News Brochure
(Pinyin, Web, Scriptures) - Good News Brochure
(Pinyin, Web, Scriptures, Night Theme)
(black background, gray text) - (Short link: tiandi.info/fg)
The above Pīnyīn-only resources, being less complex, will be updated sooner than the Pīnyīn-English resources. Also, when the mobile device they are loaded on is turned to landscape orientation, the text in these Pīnyīn-only web pages becomes large-print text. (The text of the Pīnyīn-English web pages is set to stay the same size when the device is turned to landscape orientation, so that there is more room for the English ruby text.)
