[lojban] Re: lojgloss and linebreaks

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

dei li 20 pi'e 06 pi'e 2008 la'o fy. Chris Capel .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> I'm using alice as a source of stuff to translate to test my
> parser/glosser. When alice starts a new HTML paragraph, the official
> parser doesn't say that it's starting a new lojban paragraph. For
> that, NIhO is required. Is a NIhO implied by an HTML paragraph break?
> "la nicte cadzu", on the other hand, mostly starts new text paragraphs
> with {ni'o}, but there are numerous exceptions which might have some
> meaning. (Half a {ni'o}?)
> 
> Conventionally, casually, I think a paragraph break in text (or a
> double-linebreak in plain text) does imply a new paragraph, and I'll
> probably treat it as such whether or not it's technically accurate.
> But I was wondering if the convention had any formal backing.
.skamyxatra

If by "formal backing" you mean a reference in the CLL, no, I'm pretty sure
there isn't one.  Lojban always requires explicitness in areas where other
languages do not, e.g. paragraph breaks, pauses, and attitude, so I would say
that an empty line in formatting, which is not an actual part of the utterance, most certainly would not indicate a new paragraph.


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