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--- In lojban@y..., Jay Kominek <jay.kominek@c...> wrote:
> 
> I've now got a mostly feature-complete PDF (and thus printable) version of
> the jbovlaste dictionary prepared.
> 
> It contains two sections, Lojban->English and English->Lojban. The data is
> produced from the current test jbovlaste database via an arcane
> combination of SQL, Perl and LaTeX. The SQL database itself is loaded from
> the gismu, cmavo, lujvo and rafsi wordlists, with portions of the
> ENGDICT.gis file.
> 
> It is 187 US letter sized pages long, but the margins are still
> significantly larger than they ought to be in a dictionary.
> 
> The dictionary PDF itself is available from:
> http://miranda.org/~jkominek/lojban/dictionary.pdf
> 
> The jbovlaste web site:
> http://miranda.org:8081/jbovlaste/
> (Trailing slash is important due to oddities in the setup related to its
> temporary nature.)
> 
> I welcome suggestions on how to improve the formatting of the dictionary,
> or the usability of the web site.
> 
> (It looks absolutely lovely printed on a quality PostScript printer, IMO.)

Good work! It's looking pretty cute - how does it print out on DIN A4 format sheets?

(pdf is a good standard because the files having incorporated their own fonts - e.g. look at the pdf-webzine at http://
www.yiddishweb.com/tamtam.htm with the Hebrew fonts all included - Using the pdf-dictionary on the computer, though, is very, 
very slow in looking up entries. But that's not it's real goal.)
 
.aulun.