Referenced Theo. Expressions Updated to 2010-12-24 Version, Mandarin Web Lookup Added

The Referenced Theo. Expressions files, available for download from the Referenced Theo. Expressions (Chinese + Pinyin + English) Downloads (note the slightly altered name) 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 2010-12-24. It contains 9156 expressions, compared to the 8744 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.

Here are some comments from the one who assembled this update to the RTE:

Among other things, I’ve added lots more public talk titles. I’m hoping that will be useful in congregations like mine where the talk co-ordinator’s Chinese is limited; talks often get announced in English only, and it would be useful to look up the official Chinese translation of the title when that happens...

I've updated the [RTE] again, this time with an improvement to the script that generates the ChinaScribe data. This format now contains a greater number of alternative English word orders, to assist with searching by English in ChinaScribe.

As a reminder, note that the Referenced Theo. Expressions (Chinese + Pinyin + English) Web Lookup page is now available as well. Rather than containing download links to the RTE data files, it contains a web form that can be used to look up Referenced Theo. Expressions (Chinese + Pinyin + English) information by English or by Simplified or Traditional Chinese characters.

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 ones who helped to produce this group of resources.