From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Oct 22 08:26:46 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N0zYr-000488-NK for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:26:46 -0700 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.153]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N0zYo-00047h-4k for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:26:45 -0700 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so1734167fgg.10 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:26:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=mqZ76pGgAGn2b+1opqV51d0J/AJrTlaRzcOJCfcz26Y=; b=KySog+JNuujHRHXU4GLBguK1srf81A95osEnOIQtMnVLKfZ9Na8mWQnzeFt8UZDQI/ BW/hqHNskmIqi85ljQwkOBXuuqz/uejIcWerm4Atea56PO4+CD66lQP12Krk8ypBwjho 03Ipd1hDN+0FgtKhj5kPyzf+UONOgXkR09xzM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Qc6atzfgS4w4V0bEuKT1du0CyBcmyjlfZfhoCuXdSAsrZraGt1GaEmh2Ebp9cjsxsk c/IrQrCVoqe+Ea5WQt4zb6ef7/x5QGHQXPbguOtV0y1rjL1nc5r8FeJpJT9FEiX8wjO7 rZ7KexTPcdOx5tVVtBw6cOJIJCvJ1lawgixhc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.86.163.5 with SMTP id l5mr5093642fge.3.1256225200663; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:26:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <23298cb40910220553l7b1e579fqe7218b95708fe41e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:26:40 +0200 Message-ID: <23298cb40910220826j39433ea0gbc968dcb1e5e0cd@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: lojban typography From: Remo Dentato To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 16379 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rdentato@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Kevin Reid wrote: > On Oct 22, 2009, at 8:53, Remo Dentato wrote: > >>   - the dot of {.i} is enlarged by x% or rendered in bold > > > I think this is not a good choice. Firstly, "i" is the separator word; the > dot is is incidental. Secondly, having emphasized separators would produce > visual noise which would distract from the rest of the text. If anything, > ".i" should be lightly deemphasized, made slightly more like a piece of > whitespace. Well, the point is to create visual clues for the eye. When I try to understand a lojban sentence (possibly three lines long as there are some in the PDF: http://sites.google.com/site/jboremod/cll/lonubinxo.pdf) I scan it multiple times with the eyes to identify the bridi, the sumti etc. I needed something to help me immediately identify when I could stop scanning. I've tried to add a lot of space around {,i}, to bold it, to make it larger, to make it smaller etc. In the end I opted for enlarging. I speak for myself here, of course, my intent is exactly to determine what good typography rules could be for lojban. 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.