[lojban] Re: lojban typography

[Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Kevin Reid <kpreid@mac.com> wrote:
> On Oct 22, 2009, at 8:53, Remo Dentato wrote:
>
>>   - the dot of {.i} is enlarged by x% or rendered in bold
>
>
> I think this is not a good choice. Firstly, "i" is the separator word; the
> dot is is incidental. Secondly, having emphasized separators would produce
> visual noise which would distract from the rest of the text. If anything,
> ".i" should be lightly deemphasized, made slightly more like a piece of
> whitespace.

Well, the point is to create visual clues for the eye.

When I try to understand a lojban sentence (possibly three lines long
as there are some in the PDF:
http://sites.google.com/site/jboremod/cll/lonubinxo.pdf) I scan it
multiple times with the eyes to identify the bridi, the sumti etc.  I
needed something to help me immediately identify when I could stop
scanning.  I've tried to add a lot of space around {,i}, to bold it,
to make it larger, to make it smaller etc. In the end I opted for
enlarging.

 I speak for myself here, of course, my intent is exactly to determine
what good typography rules could be for lojban.


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