Re: [lojban-beginners] Typesetting

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

I believe we went over this subject extensively when the Alice translator contacted us about his intention to publish the Lojban version in his translation collection. I'm sure someone with the desire could find that thread. I think it's about a year old now.

The subject line for the discussion that generated the typography debate is "[lojban] la .alis." On my gmail there are at least three threads with this title, so there is probably some slogging to do.

I would not be surprised if the results of the debate were posted on the tiki somewhere, thus negating the need to slog. Someone else may have that information.

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com> wrote:

On Monday, August 1, 2011, paul_faehrbrorn <pa.fae@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> shouldn't the following be possible?

> [...] to put a quotation mark next to

> *every* lu/li'u and nowhere else, to italicise *every* word following
> a ba'e and nothing else, to start a new paragraph at *every* ni'o/no'i—
> and nowhere else (and, of course, many things more). This seems in
> principle so trivial a task that it should be done automatically.

I think the hardest part would be to define all those rules. Have you put any more thoughts on them?

What i think is important is to identify all those structures that are relevant for typesetting the text and then a separate set of rules could specify how each structure should be rendered.

One could parse the output of jbofihe or camxes to create the HTML or TeX version.

If you already have an initial set of rules, I'could try to whip up a prototype script for doing the conversion.

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