Re: [lojban] Re: jbovlaste lujvo definitions -- opinions wanted.

[Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 06:30 PM 5/9/04 -0700, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
>--- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > Before changing the help and asking people to change their definitions,
> > I'd like to see what people on the list think.  Do you prefer one over
> > the other?  If you prefer the second form, should "x_1" always be used,
> > or the first letter of the lujvo, or a series of letters representing
> > the lujvo ("bd_1" in the case of ba'urdu'u) ?
>
>My preference is to only use x_1, x_2, etc. The other info
>is useful to understand how the lujvo was constructed, but
>it doesn't really add anything to the understanding of the
>lujvo itself. For the final presentation, I think only x's
>is best. Now, jbovlaste is being used not just for
>presentation, but also for judging and voting on definitions,
>and for that purpose seeing how the lujvo was constructed
>might be helpful.

This suggests that it might be ideal to have the display program hide that 
information in look-up mode, but not in editing/voting mode (assuming that 
the two modes are easily distinguishable)

lojbab

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lojbab                                             lojbab@lojban.org
Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group
(Opinions are my own; I do not speak for the organization.)
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