From robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR Wed Apr 11 06:50:15 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: robin@bilkent.edu.tr X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_1); 11 Apr 2001 13:50:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 49534 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2001 13:50:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 11 Apr 2001 13:50:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr) (139.179.30.24) by mta1 with SMTP; 11 Apr 2001 13:50:12 -0000 Received: from neo.fen.bilkent.edu.tr (neo.fen.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.97.69]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with SMTP id 046E512743 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:53:43 +0300 (EEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Organization: Bilkent University To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban Level 0 Brochure Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:52:15 +0300 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01041116521500.01240@neo.fen.bilkent.edu.tr> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Robin Turner X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 6469 On Wednesday 11 April 2001 12:03, Nick NICHOLAS wrote: > Lojbanists, > > as previously posted, I have taken over production of the Level 0 > Brochure. This means translating existing materials to DocBook format, as > well as completing and tinkering with Robin Turner's lessons. (Btw, not to > start a flamewar on quite the wrong mailing list, but DocBook is just as > brain-damaged as I suspected; I'll stick with it because, for now, its > rendering support is still better than my tagset weapon of choice, TEI.) > > I've posted my first results (DocBook, RTF, TeX and HTML) on > http://www.opoudjis.net/lojbanbrochure/brochure.ann.html (with > too-acronym-ridden Lojban version on > http://www.opoudjis.net/lojbanbrochure/brochure.ann-loj.html): these > contain the first two of Robin's lessons. (I've added one exercise > to Lesson 2; I'll be doing some reorganising with the other > lessons.) Expect more in the weeks ahead --- especially once Lojbab > actually finds the document I was working on in Fairfax! :-) Nice to see my lessons are in good hands! A couple of points ... 1. Some formatting seems to have been lost in the HTML version. It would be worth setting up something in the stylesheet to render Lojban words differently to English (I just used the EM tag in the original, but a different font might be appropriate). I noticed that there is a reference to lojbanlevel0.css but I couldn't find the file. Quotation marks seem to be missing. 2. I can't turn the TeX version into DVI - I get an "undefined control sequence" error message. Since Nick says that he doesn't use TeX, maybe some TeXperts on this list could check this out. 3. Someone mailed me a while back, pointing out that "mi'e" is pronounced less like English "me hey" (as I wrote) and more liek "me heh". Might be worth changing this to avoid an excessively long "e". robin.tr