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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:41:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Subject: Re: Lojban word processor for Windows?
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Well ... not a word processing mode, but here is a pointer to some
Emacs Lisp libraries that I wrote years ago before I ran out of time
to study Lojban.  Some of you may find these helpful: 
lookup,  flashcard,  and gismu list formatting.

I have put them in a gzip'd tar file on my website in a directory
called:

    http://www.rattlesnake.com/lojban/

See

    http://www.rattlesnake.com/lojban/lojban-readme.html 

for more commentary.   The various files are in

    lojban-flashcard.tar.gz



1. The `lojban-lookup.el' program looks up Lojban gismu as formatted
   in the list from 1993 or so.  (I did not include cmavo at that
   time.)  I have not looked at this program since 1994 and do not
   know if it works with any of the current formats.  Indeed, I cannot
   remember how it works.  Fortunately, the source code is fairly well
   documented, so it should make some sort of sense.  I suspect the
   newer Lojban distributions store vocubulary in a different format,
   so you will to modify this lookup program yourself to get it to
   work.


2. `lojban-flashcard.el':  I modified Lars Huttar's Emacs Flashcard
   mode to work with Lojban.  This still works great!  I just tested
   it!  It works with both cmavo and gismu.
   
   You can start with some basic words, both gismu and cmavo, that I
   put into a file called `basic-words', then you can go on to a the
   complete 1994 list of gismu in alphabetical order.  These ten lists
   are preformatted to work with the Flashcard program.  Each file is
   nearly 190kb long and may take some time to load.  It provides help
   -- type the `h' key -- and a variety of other features, such as
   score data.
   
   
   
3. The `format-gismu-list.el' file provides two functions to reformat
   entries in the 1994 English-Lojban list, `engdict.gis' so that they
   fit into 80 columns.  If I remember rightly, this is the format I
   use for the Flashcard program.  The format keeps the various field
   markers that John and Lojbab put into the original list, so it is
   easy to further process such a file.


If you want the Emacs Lisp libraries and formatted vocabulary files,
download 

    http://www.rattlesnake.com/lojban/lojban-flashcard.tar.gz

This gzip'd tar file is 543,609 bytes long and untars into a
subdirectory called `flashcard'.  You can see what it untars to by
looking into the  `flashcard' directory at the site:

    http://www.rattlesnake.com/lojban/flashcard

All I did is untar the 

    lojban-flashcard.tar.gz

that is there, so what you see is what I see.



Best wishes.

I hope to get back to Lojban sooner or later; it is just that other
parts of my life momentarily take precedence.

-- 
    Robert J. Chassell                  bob@rattlesnake.com
    Rattlesnake Enterprises             http://www.rattlesnake.com