Bible’s Message Br. Chinese-Pinyin-Eng. LN-A Material Up to P. 3 Posted

3-line Chinese-Pinyin-English files with LN-A (LinkNav and annotation (notes & highlighting)) containing material covering from the front cover to p. 3 of the Bible’s Message 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 Bible’s Message Brochure (Chinese-Pinyin-English, iPad-Letter-A4, LN-A) page.

The XLP-iPhone-A5 size files use A5 as the paper size, and they are especially suited for use on devices such as the iPhone, the iPod touch, and other devices with similarly sized screens, such as Android phones. These files can be downloaded from the Bible’s Message Brochure (Chinese-Pinyin-English, XLP-iPhone-A5, LN-A) page. (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.)

The XLP-iPhone-A5 files should also be a good fit on 6" (15.2 cm) screen Kindles and other similarly sized devices, as well as on tablets with 7" (17.8 cm) screens, as long as these devices have PDF support. (Note that landscape orientation may work best, as explained on the 3-Line Material on the iPhone and the iPod touch page.) Some may prefer to use these files on larger mobile devices like the Kindle DX or the iPad as well.

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 relevant folders at the 3lines.org site contain HTML files with links to the Bible’s Message Brochure (Chinese-Pinyin-English, iPad-Letter-A4, LN-A) and Bible’s Message 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)

3-Line Material on the iPhone and the iPod touch Page Updated

The 3-Line Material on the iPhone and the iPod touch page has been updated. It now has a new section entitled Downloading Files.

Referenced Theo. Expressions Updated to 2011-12-23 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 and Referenced Theo. Expressions (Chinese + Cantonese Romanisation + English) Downloads 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 romanization are both available.

The current version is now dated 2011-12-23. It contains 14,494 entries (+ 6006 alternate headings), compared to the 14,041 entries (+ 5766 alternate headings) 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.)

Re this update, the one who produces the RTE said:

The Cantonese version has been overhauled again: my program to convert Jyutping to Sidney Lau and Yale had many mistakes in it, leading to incorrect Sidney Lau and Yale, but now a Cantonese-speaking brother kindly helped me fix the rules. Also there were quite a few entries where one or two Traditional characters were incorrectly copied from Simplified, leading to incorrect Cantonese (e.g. 里 and 裡 have different pronunciations); this has now been fixed.

As usual this update also adds more words and makes a few general corrections.

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]


• romanization, 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.

As a reminder, note that the Referenced Theo. Expressions (Chinese + Pinyin + English) Web Lookup and Referenced Theo. Expressions (Chinese + Cantonese Romanization + English) Web Lookup pages are now available as well. Rather than containing download links to the RTE data files, they each contain a web form that can be used to look up RTE information.

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