That is true, but is missing the point of the additional richness the proprietary iBook format allows for such as interactive multiple-choice questions, audio clips, video clips, and other learning aids that might be attractive in an enhanced version of the CLL :-)kozmikreisOn 27 Jan 2012, at 21:32, Aaron Hawryluk wrote:Or, if there's an html version in existence, it could just be ported to .epub with Calibre...
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On Jan 27, 2012 6:50 AM, "CosmicRay" <cr@cosmicray.co.uk> wrote:Those were very much my thoughts too - that porting a regularly updated open source formatted book into a proprietary format was going to be awfully tough to keep up with. However, unlike apps, I think iBooks are static once published. Authors don't push out a v1.x update after the fact. With this in mind it's probably still worth forking the next stable CLL major version and porting it, perhaps even embedding an errata section by use of a web view that points back to the github repo in case of any major boo-boos.kozmikreisOn 24 Jan 2012, at 02:44, Joshua Proehl wrote:I was just looking into the idea of creating a CLL iBook as well!
The problem that I see is that iBooks Author doesn't appear to play very nicely with the idea of streaming data in from other files. Which means that it's not really possible to script "convert the source files into an iBook", but rather each change made to the source files would have to be manually made to the iBook as well. Which is going to rapidly become painful. Further looking into is required however, as it would be a truly incredible platform to use.
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On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:11, kozmikreis <kozmikreis@lojban.org.uk> wrote:I look forward to trying that out, please let us know when it's available. It'll be good when there's finally a Lojban-specific app in the iTunes Store :-)
Regarding my conlanger meet-up app idea, I retain no rights to the idea should you or anyone else wants to implement it either solo or as a collaboration.On a slightly related note, there's now a free iBooks Author app in the Mac App Store for authoring rich content books for iPad consumption. It looks ideal for creating and sharing educational textbooks. The CLL as an iBook would be a good place to start, once the latest changes to it have been completed - thoughts anyone?kozmikreisOn 22 Jan 2012, at 09:13, aryrain laubels wrote:I have written a Lojban Dictionary in pure Objective C, I am currently waiting for approval. I finished it a week or so ago but posted it today. But some other applications would be interesting.On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:58 AM, kozmikreis <kozmikreis@lojban.org.uk> wrote:[repost, original seems to have been lost to the aether]I've got an Apple iOS Developer account and would be happy to have a hand in writing a Lojban app for iOS (and Android if I can get the damn SDK and toolset stable), it's just I haven't thought of an app idea that has anything better to it than those that already exist.
My dev language of choice would probably be the _javascript_ variant from Appcelerator, not that it's anything amazing, but it can compile to multiple platforms and takes away some of the suckage of Objective C.
One idea I had was perhaps a meet-up app for conlangers in general, whereby you tick the list of languages you speak or are learning to speak and perhaps your level of proficiency, and let it run in the background occasionally checking your location in to a central server. When someone else with a matching conlang interest is nearby the phone can alert you so you can meet up and say coi. Might be good for finding people to practice with?
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