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[lojban] Re: lojban typography



What pictures are these?  Can I see?

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Adam D. Lopresto <adam@pubcrawler.org> wrote:
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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