Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Referenced Theo. Expressions Updated to 2010-10-26 Version

The Referenced Theo. Expressions files, available for download from the Referenced Theo. Expressions (Chinese + Pinyin + English) and Referenced Theo. Expressions (Chinese + Cantonese Romanisation + English) pages, have been updated. These files are meant to be relatively extensive lists of theo. expressions as they have been found to be rendered in the Chinese publications. Versions sorted by English and versions sorted by romanisation are both available.


The current version is now dated 2010-10-26. It contains 8614 expressions, compared to the 8409 expressions that were in the previous version. A Mandarin Pleco version, a Mandarin Wenlin version, and a Mandarin ChinaScribe data file are available in addition to the PDF files.


Bookmarks have been added to the PDF files, and PDF annotation has been enabled on them, so “LN-A” (“Link Navigation-Annotation”) is included in their filenames. See the PDF Link Navigation page and the PDF Annotation (Notes & Highlighting) page for more information.


Note that the current version of Pleco for iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad now supports flashcards and user-created dictionaries. So, the RTE Pleco Instructions file now contains instructions for installing the RTE Pleco files in Pleco running on these devices. Also, these instructions have been rewritten for greater clarity, with more step-by-step details.


Thanks go out to the one who helped to produce these files. Here are some comments from that person regarding this update:

“Mostly minor corrections/additions, but I’ve made some improvements to the code that makes the
by-English index, especially in Wenlin and Pleco formats. I’m hoping it will now be easier to look up common phrases while doing zero-notice translations of public talks (which I’m sometimes asked to do....)”