Referenced Theo. Expressions Updated to 2011-05-14 Version

The Referenced Theo. Expressions files available for download 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 2011-05-14. It contains 10,100 expressions, compared to the 9859 expressions that were in the previous version. For the Mandarin RTE data, Pleco, Wenlin, ChinaScribe, DICT, StarDict (for ColorDict, etc.), and iSilo data files are now available in addition to the PDF files. (We have not been able to make the StarDict data files work with the StarDict program itself, but they may work with ColorDict and other programs that read the StarDict format.)

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

I can't believe we're over 10,000 words now. 10,100 to be precise. I got a bit carried away with Chinese Watchtower Library 2010 over the last few days.

STARDICT PROBLEMS...

FANTASDIC INSTRUCTIONS...

PRE-COMPILED PLECO FILES...

The Referenced Theo. Expressions (Chinese + Pinyin + English) Downloads page has been updated re the above points. Also, the old Submitting New Expressions subheading of both the Mandarin and the Cantonese download pages has been changed to the below in order to encourage more submissions and requests:

Submitting or Requesting New Expressions

If you come across a Chinese theo. expression that is not yet listed in the RTE material and you would like to submit or request it for inclusion in future versions of the RTE material, please email me about it and include as many of these pieces of information as you are reasonably able to:

• Chinese characters (Simplified, Traditional, or both)


• pinyin (zhèyàng or zhe4yang4 are both okay) [Mandarin page]


• romanisation, including type (e.g. Yale, Sidney Lau, etc.) [Cantonese page]


• English equivalent


• source (which theo. publication, page, paragraph)

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.

Bearing Witness Bk. XLP-iPhone-A5 Size LN-A 3-Line Material for Ch. 5 Posted

3-line pinyin and Sidney Lau XLP-iPhone-A5 size files with LN-A (LinkNav and annotation (notes & highlighting)) for Chapter 5 of the Bearing Witness book are now available for download from the Bearing Witness 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 Bearing Witness 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 Bearing Witness 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)

Bearing Witness Bk. A4/Letter Size 3-Line Material for Ch. 5 Posted

A4/letter size 3-line material for Chapter 5 of the Bearing Witness 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. 14, Par. 2 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. 14, par. 2 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)

PDF Annotation (Notes & Highlighting) Page Updated

The PDF Annotation (Notes & Highlighting) page has been updated with screenshots of the current version of GoodReader for iPad, with its revised annotation controls. (The screenshots show annotations applied to a Watchtower PDF downloaded from jw.org.) Also, captions have been added to the GoodReader for iPad screenshots, and the following paragraph has been added to the page text:

Annotations made to a PDF file in GoodReader on an iPhone, iPod touch, or an iPad are autosaved.

Bearing Witness Bk. XLP-iPhone-A5 Size LN-A 3-Line Material for Ch. 4 Posted

3-line pinyin and Sidney Lau XLP-iPhone-A5 size files with LN-A (LinkNav and annotation (notes & highlighting)) for Chapter 4 of the Bearing Witness book are now available for download from the Bearing Witness 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 Bearing Witness 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 Bearing Witness 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)

The RTE (Mand.) Web Lookup Page Now Also Supports Searching by Pinyin

The Referenced Theo. Expressions (Chinese + Pinyin + English) Web Lookup page now supports searching by pinyin in addition to supporting searching by English or by Chinese characters.

Here are some comments by the one who produces the RTE:

RTE web lookup now supports pinyin entry (without tones or with tone numbers), but the results are still sorted by English for now.

...

I've now hacked it so that an "English" query will also check pinyin, but AFTER the English. So "women" will find "luxury-loving women" first and then all the wo3men words after. The links to other dictionaries still query their "search by English" interfaces though.

A RTE (Mand.) Web Lookup link can be found in the Links sidebar on the right of this page. A similar link can be found on the Links page at tiandi.info.