Re: Fwd: Re: Lojban word processor for Windows?

[mark@kli.org]

>From: David Brookshire Conner <nellardo@concentric.net>
>Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:28:36 -0400 (EDT)
>Cc: lojban@onelist.com
>
>From: David Brookshire Conner <nellardo@concentric.net>
>
>3. A major mode that provides some basic functionality:
>   regexps to use with outline-minor-mode (ni'oni'o and the like)
>   notations for use with font-lock (what's a quoted piece of text
>     (string to font-lock), "paren" matching, etc)
>   bindings to 1. and 2.
>   binding to pipe buffer or region to parser

Paren matching will be nice; those terminators can get confusing in long
sentences, even when you're trying to be simple.

>4. A major mode with more functionality 
>   interactive syntax checking
>   auto-suggestion and elision of cmavo
>   spell-checking
>   dictation (!)
>   lujvo tools

Don't forget cmene-checking.  Or maybe I deleted that.

>1. Writing a text editor from scratch is an interesting student
>exercise, but I don't see that you'd gain much for lojban
>functionality over existing open source (or closed but extensible)
>text editors.

It *could* be nice... But definitely AFTER we've learned lessons from
something simpler.

>2. The typography Mark and I have been discussing is (to me, at least, 
>and I imagine to Mark as well) a wholly separate issue from the text
>editor. The issue got raised in the context of the text editor, but
>type-setting and text editing are not the same thing (I write in
>Emacs, but use TeX to type-set - and I'm damn glad I don't typeset in
>Emacs). 

Agreed on all points, and I also use TeX (though I may have to break down
and find som M$-Word for some things; I can't seem to find anything on
Linux that can do TrueType kerning properly.

~mark