Re: Lojban word processor for Windows?

[David Brookshire Conner <nellardo@concentric.net>]

mark@kli.org writes:
 > >Rather than  having the compute suddenly  spit out some  text, I would
 > >prefer  that  it automatically  recognizes  that  I'm  starting a  new
 > >paragraph when  I type ".ni'o" and  hence does the right  thing for me
 > >(e.g. hangs ".ni'o" to the left, ".ni'oni'o" further left, etc.)
 > >
 > >Well... this is just my personal taste.  
 > 
 > I'm with you.  When I programmed in Pascal (it was for school, sorry) I
 > always used to disable Pascal-abbrev-mode because I didn't like the machine
 > trying to complete my code for me.  Maybe I don't WANT begin/end pairs.  Or
 > whatever.  Or maybe I just like typing everything in.

No need to apologize - I wrote a whole damn textbook on the stuff :-)

As for whether or not to have the machine spit out ".i" or "ni'o" or
whatever, I was talking about Framemaker. It's very easy to get Frame
to automatically add text to a "paragraph" at either end. Defining new 
key bindings is possible but much more arcane.

An emacs version, of course, would do something like the following:

When the user types ".", see if there is a preceding consonant - if
so, it's a name, format accordingly (add a space, skip over it)

If not, then wait to see if you're doing .i or .ni'o or whatever and
act accordingly as soon as you know.

 > >Has anyone of you brought up syntax-highlighting using font-lock-mode?
 > >It'd be nice to have the gismu, rafsi and cmavo displayed in different
 > >colors.  Better still, different  categories of cmavo can be displayed
 > >in  their own  colors, with  open  cmavo have  the same  color as  the
 > >closing ones (such as "le" and "ku").
 > 
 > In fact, paren-matching would be a HANDY thing (and more
 > device-independent) for terminators.

Yep - see my other post detailing the steps.....

Brook

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