The RTE (Mand.) Web Lookup Page’s Results Now Include Audio Links

The search results of the Referenced Theo. Expressions (Chinese + Pinyin + English) Web Lookup page now render the pinyin pronunciations of the results as links which play the audio for the pronunciations when clicked. The audio is computer-generated using technology from Gradint. These audio links have been successfully tested in desktop browsers, as well in Mobile Safari, the default web browser on the iPhone, the iPod touch, and the iPad.

RTE (Mand.) Web Lookup has been added to the Links sidebar on the right of this page. A similar link has been added to the Links page at tiandi.info.

See this post for more information about the Referenced Theo. Expressions (Chinese + Pinyin + English) Web Lookup page.

Referenced Theo. Expressions Updated to 2011-01-20 Version, Mandarin Web Lookup Available

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 2011-01-20. It contains 9334 expressions, compared to the 9156 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:

Sorry I just realised that a bug in my scripts was causing certain accented letters from Czech and Russian names to disappear from the PDFs, causing these names to be spelled incorrectly. (Not just the accent was missing, but the whole letter, and there wasn't even a blank space there! This affected the PDFs but not the other formats.)

Now fixed (along with a few more additions/corrections to the words)

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.

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.

Thanks go out to the ones who helped to produce this group of resources.

“My Follower” Bk. XLP-iPhone-A5 Size LN-A 3-Line Material for Ch. 18 and Back Cover Posted

3-line pinyin and Sidney Lau XLP-iPhone-A5 size files with LN-A (LinkNav and annotation (notes & highlighting)) for Chapter 18 and for the back cover of the “My Follower” book are now available for download from the “My Follower” Book (3-Line, XLP-iPhone-A5, LN-A) page.

Based on my recent experience with using such files on an iPad, the following sentence is included on the “My Follower” Book (3-Line, XLP-iPhone-A5, LN-A) page:

When zoomed so that one page fills an entire screen, the material in these files also renders at a good size on the iPad and other devices with similarly sized screens.

The relevant folders at the 3lines.org site contain an HTML file with a link to the “My Follower” Book (3-Line, XLP-iPhone-A5, LN-A) page.

Related links:

• 3-Line Material on the iPhone and the iPod touch


• Printing Extra Large Print 3-Line Material


• PDF Link Navigation


• PDF Annotation (Notes & Highlighting)

Missionaries and Tourists

...is the title of a new post at tiandi.info. Here’s the description from the news feed:

Those with the missionary spirit are greatly appreciated in the Chinese field, but there is a saying that “everybody hates a tourist.”

To obtain the login information for tiandi.info, request e-mail notification of news regarding available resources, or if you have any questions or comments, you may e-mail me at waynerj@shaw.ca, providing information such as what group or congregation you’re with, who referred you to this site, etc.

“My Follower” Bk. A4/Letter Size 3-Line Material for Ch. 18 and Back Cover Posted

A4/letter size 3-line material for Chapter 18 and for the back cover of the “My Follower” book is now available for download from the 3lines.org site. Simplified and Traditional Chinese Mandarin pinyin and Traditional Chinese Cantonese Jyutping, Sidney Lau, and Yale material is available.

Additionally, the Simplified (CHS) Mandarin pinyin files are also available in “black” versions, which only use black to render the material rather than using blue and red for some of it like the regular files.

At the 3lines.org home page, just answer the Witness-testing questions (no commas), click on the bs (Book Study) graphic, and click through to your desired type of file.

Was Life Created? Br. Chinese-Pinyin-Eng. LN-A Material Up to P. 10 Posted

3-line Chinese-Pinyin-English files with LN-A (LinkNav and annotation (notes & highlighting)) and containing material covering from the front cover to p. 10 of the Was Life Created? brochure are now available for download. The files are available in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese versions. Also, both iPad-Letter-A4 and XLP-iPhone-A5 size files are available.

The iPad-Letter-A4 size files use letter size as the paper size. When zoomed so that one page fills the entire screen, the material in these files renders at a good, usable size on the iPad and other devices with similarly sized screens. These files can be downloaded from the Was Life Created? Brochure (Chinese-Pinyin-English, iPad-Letter-A4, LN-A) page.

The XLP-iPhone-A5 size files use A5 as the paper size, and are especially suited for use on devices such as the iPhone, the iPod touch, and other devices with similarly sized screens. (See the 3-Line Material on the iPhone and the iPod touch page for instructions on how to use these files on an iPhone or an iPod touch.) When zoomed so that one page fills the entire screen, the material in these files also renders at a good, usable size on the iPad and other devices with similarly sized screens. These files may also be printed out on letter size paper, resulting in Extra Large Print material. (See the Printing Extra Large Print 3-Line Material page for instructions.) The XLP-iPhone-A5 size files can be downloaded from the Was Life Created? Brochure (Chinese-Pinyin-English, XLP-iPhone-A5, LN-A) page.

The relevant folders at the 3lines.org site contain HTML files with links to the Was Life Created? Brochure (Chinese-Pinyin-English, iPad-Letter-A4, LN-A) and Was Life Created? Brochure (Chinese-Pinyin-English, XLP-iPhone-A5, LN-A) pages.

Related links:

• 3-Line Material on the iPhone and the iPod touch


• Printing Extra Large Print 3-Line Material


• PDF Link Navigation


• PDF Annotation (Notes & Highlighting)

“My Follower” Bk. 3-Line XLP-iPhone-A5 Size LN-A Files For Ch. 17 Posted

3-line pinyin and Sidney Lau XLP-iPhone-A5 size files with LN-A (LinkNav and annotation (notes & highlighting)) for Chapter 17 of the “My Follower” book are now available for download from the “My Follower” Book (3-Line, XLP-iPhone-A5, LN-A) page.

Based on my recent experience with using these files on an iPad, the following sentence has been added to the “My Follower” Book (3-Line, XLP-iPhone-A5, LN-A) page:

When zoomed so that one page fills an entire screen, the material in these files also renders at a good size on the iPad and other devices with similarly sized screens.

The relevant folders at the 3lines.org site contain an HTML file with a link to the “My Follower” Book (3-Line, XLP-iPhone-A5, LN-A) page.

Related links:

• 3-Line Material on the iPhone and the iPod touch


• Printing Extra Large Print 3-Line Material


• PDF Link Navigation


• PDF Annotation (Notes & Highlighting)

NWT Audio Files Page Now Directs Visitors to jw.org

The NWT Audio Files page used to contain links to unofficial audio files of Mandarin NWT content read by computer. However, official human-read Mandarin NWT audio files are now available for download from jw.org, so the NWT Audio Files page now directs users to go there for such files. Also, these instructions are provided on how to access the download links to the Mandarin NWT audio files at jw.org:

1. Click on the Downloads tab on the top left of the page.


2. Under the Audio Recordings heading on the left side, click on the Bible link.


3. In the Language dropdown box in the centre of the page, select Chinese Mandarin/Simplified or Chinese Mandarin/Traditional, depending on your preference. (Simplified or Traditional here refers to the type of Chinese characters used in the text embedded in the audio files for display in programs like iTunes, etc.)


4. In the Bible Book dropdown box, select the Bible book for which you want audio files. Download links for those audio files should then automatically appear below the dropdown boxes.

List and Map at tiandi.info Updated

The List and the Map at tiandi.info have been updated after several months during which I didn’t have time to do so. You may want to have a look if you haven’t done so for a while.

Here are some of the places that have new or updated entries:

• Miami, FL
• Cincinnati, OH
• Adelaide, Australia
• Querétaro, Mexico
• Fiji