Sunday, April 27, 2014

New Resources: Was Life Created? Br. (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures) Pages

I realized again recently that there is currently no official Pīnyīn PDF for the Was Life Created? brochure on jw.org, while the existing unofficial 3-line PDFs only cover about the first two-thirds or so of the brochure. So, there is a need for proofread Pīnyīn material for the remaining third or so of the Was Life Created? brochure.


To help fill that need, the following new resources have started to become available:

To begin with, proofread Pīnyīn web material is available for the section on page 29 of the brochure, entitled “Does it matter what you believe?” in English. I think this is one of the most important parts of the Was Life Created? brochure. Next, Jehovah willing, I will pick up from where the existing 3-line files left off.


(For more information on why I have moved on from producing 3-line PDFs to producing Pīnyīn and Pīnyīn/Sidney Lau-English web and EPUB material, see this post.)


Note that:

  • The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
  • The linked full text in Pīnyīn of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—they are quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • In the above resources, links are used extensively to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • The Offline Viewing sections of the above resources explain how to view them offline. Of course, in addition to being downloadable and viewable offline, the web pages of the above web resources can also be printed out from your web browser.
  • Turning mobile devices to landscape orientation causes the text in the above resources to become large-print text.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

Also, the introductions explain why it’s good to use Pīnyīn as a writing system on its own.


Eventually, Pīnyīn-English web and Pīnyīn and Pīnyīn-English EPUB versions of the above resources should appear as well.