[lojban] Re: lojban typography

["Adam D. Lopresto" <adam@pubcrawler.org>]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Remo Dentato wrote:

> coi jbopre
>
> I typeset and printed "lo nu binxo", translated by xorxes, for reading
> it when I'm away from a computer.

I saw the pictures, and it looks very nice.

> I've not found any suggestion for typesetting lojban so I thought we
> could put together something.

This should probably go on the wiki.

> For example:
>    - {ni'o} always starts a new paragraph
>    - {.i} never appears at the end of a line by itself

I agree with nonbreaking space after {.i}.  It's probably also a good idea to
put nonbreaking space after sumtcita and LE.  I've also toyed with (and found
that I rather liked) using thin spaces inside cmavo clusters.  It forms a nice
compromise between the styles of using no space and normal spaces.

>    - {.i} is surrounded by x% more space
>    - the dot of {.i} is enlarged by x% or rendered in bold
>    - Capter, Sections, subsections etc are numbered using more than
> one {pi} : "1.2.5 ..." {ni'o papirepimu ...}
>    - footnotes should be ....???
>    - bullet lists ???
>    - if not omitted, {fa'e} must be typeset on a separated line
>    - ...
>
> I'm not suggestion a "Chicago Manual of style", but just some common
> rules we all can agree.
>
> Of course, once agreed, we would need some good examples to show.
>
> I think it would be good to be able to show well-looking lojban books.
>
> remod
>
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