[lojban-beginners] Re: Typesetting

[paul_faehrbrorn <pa.fae@gmx.de>]

On Aug 2, 7:29 am, Remo Dentato <rdent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you already have an initial set of rules, I'could try to whip up a
> prototype script for doing the conversion.

To start with, possibly:

i		some space (quad?) + .i
ni'o, no'i
depending on document class, paragraphs, subsections, sections, etc,
for a given hierarchy of NIhOs

sei … [se'u]
--sei …[ se'u]--

lu … li'u
\guillemotleft{}lu … li'u\guillemotright{}

lo'u … le'u
*\guillemotleft{}lo'u … le'u\guillemotright{}

ba'e …
ba'e \emph{…}

za'e …
za'e  \guilsinglleft{}…\guilsinglright{} (?)

to … toi
(to … toi)

to'i … toi
[to'i … toi] (or a footnote/endnote?)

tu'e … tu'u
quotation environment?

- \emph might do as well for la'o, zo and zoi.
- "zo'u: …" seems somewhat bold to me.
- *possibly* actually print xi subscripts as subscript text?
- si, sa, su erasure with undedotted or stroke-through text might be
nice or horrible, I'm not sure. Probably horrible to implement in any
case.
- I guess it's theoretically possible to implement that stylistical
choices can be applied document-wide (marking pauses or stress, cmavo
spacing [thin space might work well, btw.] …).
- And I dare not even think about mo'o interaction with section
numbering.

Please note that these are just some, not necessarily well-thought,
thoughts. My overall mental guideline being: to *add* redundant (from
a formal Lojban-grammar point of view) visual clues to the 'raw'
Lojban text, but not to touch the 'raw' text itself. I know there are
borderline cases: If italics are OK as a non-graphemic variation, are
small caps? If so, are caps? — … in which cases I'd opt to the
conservative side (in that particular case, no caps). Note also that
even a 'plain ASCII' text that is merely paragraphed is visually
structured.

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