Proposed final baseline grammar posted to ftp site

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

John Cowan has posted grammar.247, bnf.247, and techfix.247 to the
Lojban ftp site:
ftp://ftp.access.digex/pub/access/lojbab/machine-grammars/*.247
(I hope I formatted it right - we cannot use the same URLs from inside
digex as you use otuside).

Barring anything unexpected, this should be the grammar that is baselined
in a couple of days.

John and Nora and I have had a last minute conference at which we reviewed
status and confirmed the resolution of known open issues.  I don't have the
exact list, but I think we have dealt with, among other things, interval
specification in tenses, what will and won't be prescribed regarding
default and non default quantifiers as they interact with prenexes.
Ordinal tenses are in, (I think).  When in doubt we are including rather than
excluding possibilities.

John has a couple of chapters to finalize in the refgrammar, and Nora has
two illustrations to polish, and we are still hoping to have a cover
illustration on the book.  But the work is essentially done, and Cowan
thinks he will be done on New Years day, though he may not be able to
upload till he gets back to New York City.

As such, expect the baseline to be declared approximately on time, and
almost certainly by the end of the week.

lojbab