From lojbab@lojban.org Sat Mar 24 10:05:02 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 24 Mar 2001 18:05:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 99530 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2001 18:04:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 24 Mar 2001 18:04:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-1.cais.net) (205.252.14.71) by mta3 with SMTP; 24 Mar 2001 19:06:03 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (47.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.47]) by stmpy-1.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2OI4ub13351 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 13:04:57 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010324123433.00b39d20@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 12:41:00 -0500 To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Marketing lojban In-Reply-To: <01032322133607.00922@neofelis> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010322163910.00b9dd60@127.0.0.1> <4.3.2.7.2.20010322095151.00c2c980@127.0.0.1> <4.3.2.7.2.20010322163910.00b9dd60@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 6169 At 10:10 PM 03/23/2001 -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: >On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: >li'o > >>Second (and last, I'm almost done. :) is that at one point I started > >>reformatting the draft textbook in LaTeX so I could print it out and have > >>something pleasent to look at it. Its a metric buttload of work, so I > >>stopped because it wasn't worth my time for just myself. > > > >Those of us in the Windoze world don't know what to do with TeX and its > >relatives. The master of the draft textbook is in Microsoft Word, which is > >on the website. > >Microsoft Word is as foreign to a Unix user as TeX is to a Windows user. Why >not convert it to AbiWord, so that everyone can read it? Never heard of it, and I wouldn't know how to read it. And I don't have time to convert anything, much less learn how, with several higher priority things going undone. Anyone who wants to convert our stuff to some other format and put it on a website is pretty much welcome to do so (it's polite to ask, but we'll say yes). Just please don't expect Lojban Central to get around to it very soon. It only took me 7+ years to convert the JL and LK issues to a text form suitable for downloading, and I already KNEW how to do that. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org