[lojban-beginners] Re: Printed Materials

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

> If you'd like the whole dictionary to be
> re-designed, it would take a very long time to reformat all the text, so
> that depends on how long we are willing to wait, and whether we are willing
> to settle for the existing PDF when I am willing to provide a much more
> attractive alternative.

My own feeling is that the existing dictionary text is pretty good as-is.  I
have no doubt that a professional designer could make it even better, but I'm
not sure that's warranted if it would take a long time to put together.  My
own thought about the dictionary is that this is more of an interim
production for use until the LLG publishes an official version.  As I
mentioned in an earlier message, this is more of a "bird in the hand" kind of
book - it's worth more having any kind of dictionary right now than having to
wait a long time before getting a complete one.

And I really do think the current format of the pdf file is quite acceptable.
It looks very "dictionary like", which is all we can really ask for.  :-)

mu'o mi'e la skat.

OK,
but I would still like to play around with a redesign of the contents
eventually. I've been trying to download a jbovlaste dictionary in a
form from which I can extract the text. I'm struggling to figure out
what to do with a TEX file. Linux opens it in a text editor as some
kind of markup, rather than just the text with line breaks.
-epkat