[lojban-beginners] Re: Printed Materials

[jkominek@miranda.org]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 01:25:49PM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote:
> 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.

You'd be better equipped to discuss and deal with the dictionary if you
read about TeX. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX

The file you're looking at is, indeed, marked up text. If you have any
ideas for improving the appearance of the dictionary, your time is best
spent telling them to me, as I can adjust the fashion in which TeX will
render the dictionary, and it will simply be produced according to
the improved style from then on. (And/or you can learn TeX and test
changes yourself before sending them to me. That would be even nicer.)

That said, I don't think the PDFs available at the moment reflect the
last round of design changes (since I wasn't able to work out a font
related bug), so it isn't productive to worry about the exact formatting.

-- 
Jay Kominek <jkominek@miranda.org>