[lojban-beginners] Re: latest lujvo.txt file?

[Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com>]

Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On 8/10/05, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:

Jorge,

Thank you for a long and informative reply. See below...

> I don't know where the latest lujvo.txt is, but jbovlaste should
> have all it contains and much more. That's really the only
> currently updated lujvo repository.

Well, I want to get at the data myself so as to write one or more
tools of my own. So if I can't access the jbovlaste data easily,
I may just use an old noralujv.txt file.

I want to make a different kind of logflash, for one thing, with
two interfaces -- a really simple one and a really pretty one.

I'm also thinking of a simple lookup tool, likewise with both
a GUI and a simple command line interface.

> There is no theoretical limit to the number of numbered
> arguments a selbri can have. The limit of 5 is only for
> gismu, though there are even a few gismu that have an 
> indefinite number of places, such as {jutsi}:

Fascinating. I thought that lujvo took the same sumti as
the rightmost gismu. Is that tanru? Or am I just wrong? :)

> Everyone can contribute to jbovlaste when they feel they
> are up to it, making the modifications they consider 
> appropriate. Competing definitions can be voted on, and this
> will eventually sort the wheat from the chaff, but this process
> hasn't really taken off yet. Not many proposed lujvo have 
> more than one definition or votes.

Well, I was thinking more along the lines of tiny little
changes like misplaced punctuation that make it harder to
parse the files correctly.

I'm not at the stage of wanting to create new lujvo, as I still
don't know what is already out there.


Hal