Saturday, June 27, 2015

New Resources: Imitate Bk. Resources With English Ruby Text

Many of you may have noticed that it has been officially announced in the June 2015 km that the Imitate book will be considered at the CBS, starting the week of October 19, 2015. Now, the first unofficial Imitate book material with English ruby text has been posted:

tiandi.info/ia has been updated with the above resources. Also, link pages leading to the above resources have been posted at 3lines.org.


The list of reasons I decided to proceed with working on Pīnyīn and Pīnyīn-English material for the Imitate book has been updated as well:

Note that:

  • The material in the above resources has been carefully translated, rendered, and proofread. (Any unproofread material is rendered with a lower-contrast grey background. While unproofread material is not as good as proofread material, it is generally better than nothing.)
  • Since the Imitate book may get revised, the material in the above resources has been checked against the Chinese Imitate book material on the WOL. If you notice that some changes need to be made to the material in the above resources to bring it in line with revisions to the Imitate book, please email me to let me know.
  • The linked full text 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 above resources contain links for pictures. The Mandarin resources also contain links for official Mandarin MP3 audio files. (Unfortunately, at this time there are no official Cantonese audio files to link to.)
  • The Offline Viewing and Printing sections of the above web resources explain how to view them offline. Of course, the web pages of the above web resources can also be printed out from your web browser.
  • Like PDF files, EPUB files can be downloaded for offline viewing.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, EPUB files can be annotated, meaning that notes, highlighting, etc. can be added.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size of the EPUB material 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.

Also, the introductions explain why it’s good to use Pīnyīn and Sidney Lau romanization as writing systems on their own.


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