From jkominek@miranda.org Tue Aug 27 11:47:23 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from miranda.org ([209.58.150.153] ident=qmailr) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.05) id 17jlN2-0001pS-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:47:20 -0700 Received: (qmail 23956 invoked by uid 534); 27 Aug 2002 18:47:18 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:47:18 -0600 From: Jay F Kominek To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] JL & LK Message-ID: <20020827124718.C11178@miranda.org> References: <20020827031227.B11178@miranda.org> <20020827164414.GM20007@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20020827164414.GM20007@chain.digitalkingdom.org>; from rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org on Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:44:14AM -0700 X-archive-position: 812 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:44:14AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:12:27AM -0600, Jay F Kominek wrote: > > The goal would be to target print for people without Internet access. > > People with computers and Internet access would have far better ways > > of getting information than to read monthly/quarterly/decadely > > publications, so providing a variety of formats and such wouldn't be > > useful. > > I don't think that's reasonable. Many people don't read lojbanic stuff > every day, and would like to read a dense, infrequent sort of > information as this. I don't think it would be excessive to expect such people to view the PDF. Free software is available for a variety of platforms. The only requirement is a windowing system of some sort. And personally I'd prefer that if I'm laying the thing out, that my layout (== my work) be preserved. > OTOH, we could always *refuse* to make it available to people who > haven't paid for it. 8) Not losing money on something? How heretical of you. -- Jay Kominek The grass is always greener, On the other side of the dimensional barrier.