Referenced Theo. Expressions Updated to 2011-04-19 Version, Mandarin Web Lookup Available

The Referenced Theo. Expressions files have been updated. They are 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. 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 2011-04-19. It contains 9859 expressions, compared to the 9628 expressions that were in the previous version. Pleco, Wenlin, ChinaScribe, DICT, and StarDict data files are now available in addition to the PDF files.

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

Besides the usual additions and corrections, this version of RTE adds two new formats: DICT and StarDict. These formats can be used by a great number of desktop and mobile dictionary apps on many platforms (iPhone, Android, Symbian, you name it). These applications are of varying quality and unfortunately I can't suggest any one in particular; it depends what device you got. I tested with an app called FantasDic on Ubuntu Linux 10.10.

Unfortunately DICT and StarDict do not keep their dictionaries in a single file. Two separate files are present for each format, and BOTH are required. Therefore I have packaged these in ZIP files to make it easier.

This update fixes the problem with tone marks in the Pleco English-to-Chinese version, and also has a bunch of additions etc.

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.