Good News Br. Pīnyīn-English Web Material Up to Lesson 4, Question 3 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn-English web material up to Lesson 4, Question 3, including the full text of the cited scriptures, has been added to:

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

Note that:

• The material in the above resources has been carefully translated, 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.
• The above resources contain a link to the video “Shàngdì Yǒu Míngzi ma?” (“Does God Have a Name?”) on jw.org.
• 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.)
• 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 Br. Pīnyīn-English Web Resources Re-architected

The Good News br. Pīnyīn-English web resources have been re-architected so that each is made up of several files and folders, rather than one big web page. While the one-page format made some things easier, it also made other things harder. Breaking up each of these web resources into several files and folders will help with those things, but mainly, it will make page loading much quicker, especially as the contents of these web resources get filled out in the days ahead. To keep scripture lookups speedy, the text of the scriptures has been kept on the same web page as the referring links, in the section entitled References. Also, the text of footnotes has been moved out of the main body’s text flow and into the References section of the web page its referring links are on.

This re-architecting has required changing the web addresses of the Good News br. Pīnyīn-English web resources. Here are the updated links:

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

(The referring link pages at tiandi.info and 3lines.org have been updated as well.)

Also, as discussed here, the default typeface for the above resources has been changed to Gentium Basic, and adjustments have been made to letterspacing as required by the ruby text structure of the material.

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.
• The above resources contain a link to the video “Shàngdì Yǒu Míngzi ma?” (“Does God Have a Name?”) on jw.org.
• 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.)
• 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.

jw.org Video Link Being Added to Good News Br. Pīnyīn & Pīnyīn-English Resources

A link to the video “Shàngdì Yǒu Míngzi ma?” (“Does God Have a Name?”) on jw.org has been added to many of the Good News brochure resources listed at tiandi.info/fg.

On the video’s web page, use the Choose Language drop-down list box to select what language you want to watch the video in.

The video link will gradually get added to all the Good News brochure Pīnyīn & Pīnyīn-English resources.

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material for Ch. 12 Added

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material for ch. 12 has been added to:

• Close to Jehovah Bk.
   (Simp.-Pīnyīn-Eng., Scriptures, EPUB)
   (mobile-friendly, paragraph links,
   support for offline use & annotation)
   (Ch. 10 to…)
• Close to Jehovah Bk.
   (Simp.-Pīnyīn-Eng., Scriptures, Web)
   (mobile-friendly, paragraph links)
   (Ch. 10 to…)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/cl)

Note that:

• The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
• The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
• The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
• 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.

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material for Ch. 11 Added

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material for ch. 11 has been added to:

• Close to Jehovah Bk.
   (Simp.-Pīnyīn-Eng., Scriptures, EPUB)
   (mobile-friendly, paragraph links,
   support for offline use & annotation)
   (Ch. 10 to…)
• Close to Jehovah Bk.
   (Simp.-Pīnyīn-Eng., Scriptures, Web)
   (mobile-friendly, paragraph links)
   (Ch. 10 to…)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/cl)

The corresponding Trad.-Lau-Eng. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material has been discontinued because of having so few users, while still requiring about as much time and effort to produce as the corresponding Simp.-Pīnyīn-Eng. material. If it becomes evident at a future time that the number of those who would use the Trad.-Lau-Eng. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material has significantly increased, then production of that material may be resumed. Meanwhile, corresponding Trad.-Lau-Eng. letter/A4 size PDF files continue to be available on 3lines.org.

Note that:

• The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
• The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
• The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
• 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.

“God’s Love” Bk. Pīnyīn Web Material Up to Ch. 2, Par. 7 Added

“God’s Love” book Pīnyīn web material covering up to chapter 2, paragraph 7 has been added to:

• “God’s Love” Bk.
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• “God’s Love” Bk.
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures, Night Theme)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   black background, grey text,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/lv)

Also, as discussed here, the default typeface for the above resources has been changed to Gentium Basic.

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.

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)

New Resources: Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material

The Close to Jehovah Book (3-Line, XLP-iPhone-A5, LN-A, Scriptures, Revised Text PDFs) resource was mainly created to better serve mobile device users, who have become the growing majority of 3-line material users. However, because of the fixed page sizes and the fixed line endings that they inherited from the print world, any PDF files, even the A5 paper size ones, are a compromised solution for mobile device users.

Thus, the time and effort previously spent on producing the Close to Jehovah book A5 paper size 3-line PDF files will now be redirected to producing more natively mobile-friendly EPUB and web resources, now that they have become more practical to produce. Here are the first of these new resources [Update, 2013-07-13: The Cantonese Sidney Lau resources have been added to the list below as well.]:

• Close to Jehovah Bk.
   (Simp.-Pīnyīn-Eng., Scriptures, EPUB)
   (mobile-friendly, paragraph links,
   support for offline use & annotation)
   (Ch. 10 to…)
• Close to Jehovah Bk.
   (Simp.-Pīnyīn-Eng., Scriptures, Web)
   (mobile-friendly, paragraph links)
   (Ch. 10 to…)
• Close to Jehovah Bk.
   (Trad.-Lau-Eng., Scriptures, EPUB)
   (mobile-friendly, paragraph links,
   support for offline use & annotation)
   (Ch. 10 to…)
• Close to Jehovah Bk.
   (Trad.-Lau-Eng., Scriptures, Web)
   (mobile-friendly, paragraph links)
   (Ch. 10 to…)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/cl)

Note that:

• The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
• The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
• The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
• 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.