From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Oct 22 07:17:22 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N0yTg-0007Qh-QU for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:17:21 -0700 Received: from express.cec.wustl.edu ([128.252.21.16] helo=mail.cec.wustl.edu) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N0yTS-0007FT-MB for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:17:20 -0700 Received: from grid.cec.wustl.edu (grid.cec.wustl.edu [128.252.20.97]) by mail.cec.wustl.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F4D11E802A; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:16:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: by grid.cec.wustl.edu (Postfix, from userid 29287) id 87D331F7844; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:16:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grid.cec.wustl.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F8161F7843; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:16:59 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:16:59 -0500 (CDT) From: "Adam D. Lopresto" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: lojban typography In-Reply-To: <23298cb40910220553l7b1e579fqe7218b95708fe41e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <23298cb40910220553l7b1e579fqe7218b95708fe41e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LRH 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-archive-position: 16374 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: adam@pubcrawler.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Remo Dentato wrote: > coi jbopre > > I typeset and printed "lo nu binxo", translated by xorxes, for reading > it when I'm away from a computer. I saw the pictures, and it looks very nice. > I've not found any suggestion for typesetting lojban so I thought we > could put together something. This should probably go on the wiki. > For example: > - {ni'o} always starts a new paragraph > - {.i} never appears at the end of a line by itself I agree with nonbreaking space after {.i}. It's probably also a good idea to put nonbreaking space after sumtcita and LE. I've also toyed with (and found that I rather liked) using thin spaces inside cmavo clusters. It forms a nice compromise between the styles of using no space and normal spaces. > - {.i} is surrounded by x% more space > - the dot of {.i} is enlarged by x% or rendered in bold > - Capter, Sections, subsections etc are numbered using more than > one {pi} : "1.2.5 ..." {ni'o papirepimu ...} > - footnotes should be ....??? > - bullet lists ??? > - if not omitted, {fa'e} must be typeset on a separated line > - ... > > I'm not suggestion a "Chicago Manual of style", but just some common > rules we all can agree. > > Of course, once agreed, we would need some good examples to show. > > I think it would be good to be able to show well-looking lojban books. > > remod > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org > with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if > you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help. > -- Adam Lopresto http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/ Linux isn't perfect, but we're working on it. --Alan Cox To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.