Use Pīnyīn as a Full Writing System, Serve Jehovah Better in the Mandarin Field

Chinese characters and _Pīnyīn_ both represent Mandarin speech. However, characters demand that attention be focused on their own unnecessarily complex visual designs, while _Pīnyīn_ allows us to focus on Mandarin speech itself, which is the actual primary aspect of Mandarin. pic.twitter.com/3TWOHVFmZK

— Troubadour WW (@troubadourww) November 10, 2023

When employed as a pronunciation aid for Chinese characters, _Pīnyīn_ is made to serve the characters, and the traditional Chinese culture they represent.

When employed as a full writing system for Mandarin, _Pīnyīn_ serves US, helping us reach our full potential with Mandarin. pic.twitter.com/dhh7th2B83

— Troubadour WW (@troubadourww) November 10, 2023

…and as _Pīnyīn_ helps us reach our full potential when it comes to how good our Mandarin can be, we can serve Jehovah and help interested ones better and better in the Mandarin field. https://t.co/ENCM0MsSKc

— tiandi, Links News (@TiandiLinksNews) November 10, 2023

_Pīnyīn_ Plus material uses _Pīnyīn_ as a full writing system, maximizing the ability of _Pīnyīn_ to help us serve Jehovah better in the Mandarin field.

The Pinyin Typist app that I developed helps us use _Pīnyīn_ as a full writing system on the iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch. pic.twitter.com/fmuAzTkZYw

— tiandi, Links News (@TiandiLinksNews) November 10, 2023

Safari Extension for Adding Pīnyīn, etc. to Web Pages

In addition to the existing Android-based solutions for adding Pīnyīn, etc. to web pages with Chinese characters, the following Safari extension that works on Apple mobile devices is now available, and has been added to the list on tiandi.info/apps:

• Chinese words separator
  (Safari web browser extension,
  iOS/iPadOS 15.0 or later required,
  “Color, space, pinyin, zhuyin/bopomofo, tone, HSK for Chinese words. Dictionary: read more, hover less with sentence dictionary. Convert between Traditional and Simplified characters.”)
• Short Link:
  tiandi.info/apps

BTW, this extension also works on Safari on Mac computers (macOS 12.0 or later required).

I have been informed that this extension is available for free until September 25; I have no information about what the price will be after that.

The NWT Pinyin App Now Supports the “Sing Out Joyfully” Book

The NWT Pinyin app now supports the official lyrics-only Pīnyīn PDF file for the “Sing Out Joyfully” book that we are now using as our songbook. Accordingly, a link for it has been added to the tiandi.info/sjj short link.

• NWT Pinyin
  (native iPad, iPhone, & iPod touch app,
  downloads official Pīnyīn NWT PDF,
  Bible book and chapter links,
  downloads official Pīnyīn songbook PDF,
  (now supports the official lyrics-only
  Pīnyīn “Sing Out Joyfully” book PDF)
  song links)
  (Mini-review of the first version on this blog)
• Short Links:
  Links ▶ Publications ▶ New World Translation Bible Links (tiandi.info/bi)
  
  Links ▶ Publications ▶ Books ▶ “Sing Out Joyfully” Book Links (tiandi.info/sjj)
  
  Links ▶ Mobile Apps that are Useful in the Chinese Fields (tiandi.info/apps)

[Update 2019-04-25: Unfortunately, it appears that this app is no longer in the App Store.]

New App: NWT Pinyin

The iPad, the iPhone, and the iPod touch have revolutionized the way many of us in the Chinese field can acquire and use publications in the field, at the meetings, etc. However, it has been a challenge to look up scriptures in the official Pīnyīn New World Translation Bible PDF file on them. As a PDF file, that file is rooted in the print world, with its set page sizes and line endings, so it does not naturally or comfortably “live” on many mobile device displays, like computer-native web and EPUB material does. As a really big PDF file, it’s time-consuming and laborious to find just the chapter and verse that you want in it. It’s been frustrating that trying to make good use of one of our most important and useful publications on one of the devices that we most likely have with us has been such a slow and cumbersome process.

Recently, a free app became available on the App Store that almost perfectly solves this common problem:

• NWT Pinyin
• (Short links: tiandi.info/bi, tiandi.info/apps)

When launched, it provides a simple button for downloading the official Pīnyīn New World Translation Bible PDF file from jw.org to the app. After that, the app provides fast and convenient iOS-native, JW Library-like controls for “teleporting” right to the chapter of the Bible book that you want. Once there, you can pinch or double-tap to zoom in as much as you want.

Why do I say that it’s just almost perfect? One thing I really wish it did better is that I wish it maintained the zoom level when moving to the next or previous page. As it is, when you do so, the zoom level resets to show one whole page on the display. That zoom level is often unusable, especially on smaller devices like the iPhone.

Basically, though, this app is an excellent tool for looking up scriptures in the official Pīnyīn New World Translation Bible PDF file as quickly and easily as we should be able to on the iPad, the iPhone, and the iPod touch, and it is the solution to this problem that I currently recommend.

[Update 2017-05-01: This app now also provides a simple button for downloading the official Pīnyīn songbook PDF file from jw.org to the app. After that, the app provides fast and convenient iOS-native, JW Library-like controls for “teleporting” right to the song that you want. Once there, you can pinch or double-tap to zoom in as much as you want.]

[Update 2018-02-20: This app now supports the official lyrics-only Pīnyīn PDF file for the “Sing Out Joyfully” book that we are now using as our songbook. Accordingly, a link for it has been added to the tiandi.info/sjj short link.]

[Update 2019-04-25: Unfortunately, it appears that this app is no longer in the App Store.]

iPad and iPhone Info Pages Renamed and Revised

The iPad and iPhone information pages have been renamed and revised:

• 3-Line, Etc. Material on the iPad
• 3-Line, Etc. Material on the iPhone and the iPod touch
• (Short link: tiandi.info/mobile)

The main changes are:

• Information has been added regarding EPUB files. When they are available, they are recommended over PDF files for use on the iPad, the iPhone, and the iPod touch.
• Information has been added regarding using Apple’s AirDrop feature to share files.

Good News Brochure Pīnyīn EPUB Material Up to Lesson 7, Question 3 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn EPUB material up to Lesson 7, Question 3 has been added to:

• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn, Scriptures EPUB)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly, picture links,
   supports offline use & annotation)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/fg)

Also, as discussed here, the default typeface for the above resource has been changed to Gentium Basic. (In iBooks, the default font is listed as Original.)

As well, a setting has been changed so that when the EPUB file is viewed in iBooks in portrait orientation using Scrolling View, the right side of the material no longer gets cut off.

Note that:

• The material in the above resource has been carefully rendered and proofread.
• 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.
• 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 download page and the EPUB file’s Introduction have information on the advantages of the EPUB format, and on why it’s good to use Pīnyīn as a writing system on its own.

New Resource: Good News Brochure (Pīnyīn-English, Scriptures EPUB) Page

The content of the Good News brochure Pīnyīn-English web pages, including the linked full text of all cited scriptures, is now available in EPUB format at this download page:

• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn-English, Scriptures EPUB)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly, picture links,
   supports offline use & annotation)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/fg)

Note that:

• The material in the above resource has been carefully translated, rendered, and proofread.
• The full text in Pīnyīn-English 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.
• 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 resource.

The download page and the EPUB file’s Introduction have information on the advantages of the EPUB format, and on why it’s good to use Pīnyīn as a writing system on its own.

For now, the Good News brochure Pīnyīn-English EPUB file, like the Good News brochure Pīnyīn-English web pages, contains material covering up to the end of Lesson 3. More material will gradually be added as time allows.

Good News Brochure Pīnyīn-English Web Material For All of Lesson 3 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn-English web material for all of Lesson 3, including the full text of the cited scriptures, has been added to:

• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn-English, Web, Scriptures)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly, picture links)
• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn-English, Web, Scriptures, Night Theme)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly, picture links,
   black background, grey text)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/fg)

Note that:

• The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
• The linked full text in Pīnyīn-English 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.
• The Recommended Browsers: sections in the above resources contain information about how to get the best viewing experience.
• 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 picture links.
• Besides being viewable online, the web pages can also be downloaded and used offline. Of course, they can be printed out from your web browser as well. (More details are included in their Offline Viewing and Printing sections, which include a link to a special PDF file for printing out the content of the web pages.)
• 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.

Was Life Created? Br. Pīnyīn Web Material for P. 20, Par. 5 to P. 21, Par. 3 Added

Was Life Created? brochure Pīnyīn web material covering from page 20, paragraph 5 to page 21, paragraph 3 has been added to:

• Was Life Created? Br.
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• Was Life Created? Br.
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures, Night Theme)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   black background, grey text,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/lc)

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 above resources contain picture labels.
• 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.

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

• NWT Bible (Pīnyīn, Web)
   (proofread, incomplete, unofficial,
   mobile-friendly, chapter-level links,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• NWT Bible (Pīnyīn, Web, Night Theme)
   (proofread, incomplete, unofficial,
   mobile-friendly, chapter-level links,
   black background, gray text,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/bi)

Good News Brochure Pīnyīn EPUB Material For All of Lesson 6 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn EPUB material for all of Lesson 6 has been added to:

• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn, Scriptures EPUB)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly, picture links,
   supports offline use & annotation)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/fg)

Note that:

• The material in the above resource has been carefully rendered and proofread.
• The 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.
• 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.

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

Good News Brochure Pīnyīn Web Material For All of Lesson 6 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn web material for all of Lesson 6 has been added to:

• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly, picture links,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures, Night Theme)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly, picture links,
   black background, gray text,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/fg)

Note that:

• The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
• The 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 above resources contain picture links.
• 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.

Good News Brochure Pīnyīn-English Web Material Up to Lesson 3, Question 2 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn-English web material covering up to Lesson 3, Question 2, including the full text of the cited scriptures, has been added to:

• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn-English, Web, Scriptures)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly, picture links)
• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn-English, Web, Scriptures, Night Theme)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly, picture links,
   black background, grey text)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/fg)

Note that:

• The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
• The linked full text in Pīnyīn-English 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.
• The Recommended Browsers: sections in the above resources contain information about how to get the best viewing experience.
• 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 picture links.
• Besides being viewable online, the web pages can also be downloaded and used offline. Of course, they can be printed out from your web browser as well. (More details are included in their Offline Viewing and Printing sections, which include a link to a special PDF file for printing out the content of the web pages.)
• 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.

Good News Brochure Pīnyīn EPUB Material Up to Lesson 6, Question 2 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn EPUB material up to Lesson 6, Question 2 has been added to:

• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn, Scriptures EPUB)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly, picture links,
   supports offline use & annotation)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/fg)

Note that:

• The material in the above resource has been carefully rendered and proofread.
• The 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.
• 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.

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

Good News Brochure Pīnyīn Web Material Up to Lesson 6, Question 2 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn web material up to Lesson 6, Question 2 has been added to:

• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly, picture links,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures, Night Theme)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly, picture links,
   black background, gray text,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/fg)

Note that:

• The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
• The 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 above resources contain picture links.
• 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.

New Resource: Adding Web Pages to the Home Screen of an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch Information Page

A new information page has been posted:

• Adding Web Pages to the Home Screen of an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch
• (Short link: tiandi.info/mobile)

Here is one of the screenshots used on this page:

Here is the Introduction of this page:

This information page contains instructions and screenshots showing how to add icons for web pages to the Home Screen of an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.

As of this writing, more than half of the visits to the 3lines.org website are being made using mobile devices, and all signs indicate that this percentage will continue to grow rapidly.

About 70% of the visits being made to 3lines.org using mobile devices are being made using iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches.

In view of this growing majority of users who are using mobile devices, some Chinese language-assistive material is being made available in the form of web pages for which a primary design goal is to be highly usable and legible on mobile devices—instead of being contained in PDF files that can be cumbersome and difficult to read on smaller mobile devices, and that need to be downloaded from web pages, the Pīnyīn, etc., is right in the web pages themselves:

• Step 1: Load the web page, which is designed to be highly usable and legible on a wide variety of computers, including mobile devices.
• Step 2: There is no Step 2!

One easy way to access these web pages is through the tiandi.info/links-based short links. Additionally, the information below can help iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch users to quickly and conveniently find and launch these web pages using icons on the Home Screens of these devices, just like they are used to finding and launching apps on these devices.

Good News Brochure Pīnyīn Web Material For All of Lesson 5 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn web material for all of Lesson 5 has been added to:

• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures, Night Theme)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   black background, gray text,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/fg)

Note that:

• For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.
• The 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.
• Turning mobile devices to landscape orientation causes the text in the above resources to become large-print text.

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

See the below post for an introduction to the above resources:

• New Resources: Good News Brochure (Pinyin, Web, Scriptures) Pages

Good News Brochure Pīnyīn-English Web Material For All of Lesson 2 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn-English web material covering all of Lesson 2, including the full text of the cited scriptures, has been added to:

• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn-English, Web, Scriptures)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly)
• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn-English, Web, Scriptures, Night Theme)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   black background, grey text)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/fg)

Note the following re the above resources:

• For your convenience, a short link is available for them.
• The full text in Pīnyīn-English of all the cited scriptures is included in them.
• They are mobile-friendly—they are quite legible and usable on everything from desktop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
• The Recommended Browsers: sections in them contain information about how to get the best viewing experience.
• Besides being viewable online, the web pages can also be downloaded and used offline. Of course, they can be printed out from your web browser as well. (More details are included in their Offline Viewing and Printing sections, which include a link to a special PDF file for printing out the content of the web pages.)

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

See the below post for an introduction to the above resources:

• New Resources: Good News Brochure (Pīnyīn-English, Web, Scriptures) Pages

Good News Brochure Pīnyīn Web Material Up to Lesson 5, Question 3 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn web material covering up to Lesson 5, Question 3 has been added to:

• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures, Night Theme)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   black background, gray text,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/fg)

Note that:

• For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.
• The 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.
• Turning mobile devices to landscape orientation causes the text in the above resources to become large-print text.

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

See the below post for an introduction to the above resources:

• New Resources: Good News Brochure (Pinyin, Web, Scriptures) Pages

Jehovah’s Will Brochure Sidney Lau-English Web Material for Lessons 26 to 28 Added

Jehovah’s Will brochure Sidney Lau-English web material for Lessons 26 to 28 has been added to:

• Jehovah’s Will Brochure
   (Sidney Lau-English, Web, Scriptures)
   (English proofread, Sidney Lau partially proofread;
   mobile-friendly)
• Jehovah’s Will Brochure
   (Sidney Lau-English, Web, Scriptures,
   Night Theme)
   (English proofread, Sidney Lau partially proofread;
   mobile-friendly; black background, grey text)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/jl)

Due to time constraints, starting with Lesson 12, the scriptures will not be included. I hope to add them after we are finished studying the Jehovah’s Will brochure at the CBS.

Also, due to its low number of users, and due to time constraints, the Jehovah’s Will brochure Sidney Lau-English EPUB file has been put on hold. I hope to finish it after we are finished studying the Jehovah’s Will brochure at the CBS.

Note the following re the above linked-to resources:

• For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.
• The full text in Sidney Lau-English of all the cited scriptures is included in them [up to Lesson 11, for now].
• They 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.
• The Recommended Browsers: sections in the web pages contain information about how to get the best viewing experience.
• Besides being viewable online, the web pages can also be downloaded and used offline. Of course, they can be printed out from your web browser as well. (More details are included in their Offline Viewing and Printing sections, which include a link to a special PDF file for printing out the content of the web pages.)

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

Going forward, I plan to focus primarily on producing Pīnyīn and Pīnyīn/Sidney Lau-English web pages and EPUB files such as the above, because they offer various advantages both for myself and for users.

Jehovah’s Will Brochure Pīnyīn-English Web & EPUB Material for Lessons 26 to 28 Added

Jehovah’s Will brochure Pīnyīn-English web & EPUB material for Lessons 26 to 28, including the full text of most of the cited scriptures, has been added to:

• Jehovah’s Will Brochure
   (Pīnyīn-English, Web, Scriptures)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly)
• Jehovah’s Will Brochure
   (Pīnyīn-English, Web, Scriptures,
   Night Theme)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   black background, grey text)
• Jehovah’s Will Brochure
   (Pīnyīn-English, Scriptures EPUB)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   supports offline use & annotation)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/jl)

Due to time contraints, starting with Lesson 15, the English ruby text for unusually long scriptures will not be included. I hope to add it after we are finished studying the Jehovah’s Will brochure at the CBS.

Note the following re the above resources:

• For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.
• The full text in Pīnyīn-English of most of the cited scriptures is included in them.
• They 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.
• The Recommended Browsers: sections in the web pages contain information about how to get the best viewing experience with them.
• Besides being viewable online, the web pages can also be downloaded and used offline. Of course, they can be printed out from your web browser as well. (More details are included in their Offline Viewing and Printing sections, which include a link to a special PDF file for printing out the content of the web pages.)
• The EPUB file’s download page has a section regarding Using the File in iBooks.

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

Going forward, I plan to focus primarily on producing Pīnyīn and Pīnyīn/Sidney Lau-English web pages and EPUB files such as the above, because they offer various advantages both for myself and for users.