From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Sep 25 11:15:21 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:15:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EJb21-0005wk-7x for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:15:21 -0700 Received: from miranda.org ([65.124.18.202]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EJb1z-0005wb-55 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:15:21 -0700 Received: (qmail 13323 invoked by uid 534); 25 Sep 2005 12:15:17 -0600 From: jkominek@miranda.org Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 12:15:17 -0600 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Printed Materials Message-ID: <20050925181517.GB29546@miranda.org> References: <200509241039.17208.scottr@synthiotics.com> <43362046.4030807@hypermetrics.com> <200509251007.25297.scottr@synthiotics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: jbo, en User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 2326 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 01:25:49PM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: > OK, but I would still like to play around with a redesign of the contents > eventually. I've been trying to download a jbovlaste dictionary in a form > from which I can extract the text. I'm struggling to figure out what to do > with a TEX file. Linux opens it in a text editor as some kind of markup, > rather than just the text with line breaks. You'd be better equipped to discuss and deal with the dictionary if you read about TeX. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX The file you're looking at is, indeed, marked up text. If you have any ideas for improving the appearance of the dictionary, your time is best spent telling them to me, as I can adjust the fashion in which TeX will render the dictionary, and it will simply be produced according to the improved style from then on. (And/or you can learn TeX and test changes yourself before sending them to me. That would be even nicer.) That said, I don't think the PDFs available at the moment reflect the last round of design changes (since I wasn't able to work out a font related bug), so it isn't productive to worry about the exact formatting. -- Jay Kominek