From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Oct 29 15:20:39 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_2_1); 29 Oct 2002 23:20:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 94661 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2002 23:20:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 29 Oct 2002 23:20:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Oct 2002 23:20:37 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA05828 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:32:35 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200210292332.SAA05828@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:19:03 -0500 Subject: Call for volunteers: The Lojbab Textbook To: lojban@yahoogroups.com (Lojban List) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:19:03 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 16854 I would like to solicit volunteers for a Lojban job, not particularly hard but involving a fair amount of detail. The Other Textbook, the one written by lojbab (it doesn't really have a title just now) is available in _plain text_ form from http://www.lojban.org/publications/draft_textbook.html, with the individual files at http://www.lojban.org/files/draft-textbook/lesson01 through http://www.lojban.org/files/draft-textbook/lesson21. (The lesson01 file contains Lessons 0 and 1; Lesson 22 is seriously broken and should be ignored.) The job is to *mark up* the lessons in simple, basic HTML, so that they can be viewed more easily. This involves figuring out where the paragraph breaks should be -- they are not all shown, especially in Lesson 0 -- and inserting tags. Lojban text, pronunciations, etc. should also be marked up. Content-level problems aren't relevant, though there is no harm in marking them up in some visible way if you spot one. If you'd rather do the markup in XML and provide an XSLT or CSS stylesheet, that's fine too. The Word 2.0 versions can be looked at for reference, but should not be used directly, as there may be changes to the plain text that are not in the Word versions. Archivemeisters, please be prepared to place the text in CVS or TWiki to allow seamless collaboration on the effort. Board: This discharges my action item. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan "The exception proves the rule." Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves my theory." Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts the rule to the proof." But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from."