Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Good News Brochure Pīnyīn EPUB Material For All of Lesson 7 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn EPUB material for all of Lesson 7 has been added to:

The download page of the above resource and the EPUB file’s introduction have information on the advantages of the EPUB format, which is native to the computer world, compared to the PDF format, which is rooted in the world of paper publications.


Also, they explain why it’s good to use Pīnyīn as a writing system on its own, since Pīnyīn simply and straightforwardly represents Mandarin speech, which is more important for us to master in our spiritual work than Chinese characters are.—1 Cor. 14:8–11.


As discussed here, the default typeface for the above resource is now Gentium Basic. (In iBooks, the default font is listed as Original.)


Besides the addition of new material, the above resource has also been re-architected as follows:

  • The full text of footnotes has been moved to be at the end of the publication, in the section entitled Jīngwén hé Jiǎozhù. This moves the full text of the footnotes out of the text flow of the main body, following the practice of the official apps, EPUB files, and websites.
  • Picture links now appear at the same places in the text flow that their corresponding pictures appear at in the official apps, EPUB files, and websites.

Note that:

  • The material in the above resource has been carefully rendered and proofread.
  • Since the Good News brochure may get revised, the material in the above resource has been checked against the Chinese Good News brochure material on the WOL. If you notice that some changes need to be made to the material in the above resource to bring it in line with revisions to the Good News brochure, please email me to let me know.
  • The linked full text in Pīnyīn of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resource.
  • The above resource is mobile-friendly—the EPUB material is 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 resource, 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 above resource contains picture links.
  • The above resource contains a link to the video “Shàngdì Yǒu Míngzi ma?” (“Does God Have a Name?”) on jw.org.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

The full Pīnyīn text of all the cited scriptures in the new material has been added to:

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