On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Michael Everson
<michael.everson@gmail.com> wrote:
On 28 Mar 2010, at 20:29, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> I'll speak up (briefly, since it wasn't requested) for that side: I won't buy a book claiming to be Lojban that uses seriously non-Lojban-standard typographic conventions,
Fair enough. Does that mean you wouldn't buy such a book if it were in Tengwar?
That depends. Is it using Lojban's conventions or the conventions of English? If it's using Lojban conventions, yes. If it's using the same "seriously non-Lojban-standard typographic conventions" as it would were it using the Latin script, then no.
Did I mention that I agree with Robin on this point about "seriously non-Lojban-standard typographic conventions"? No? I do.
> and I will decry it to anyone who asks.
That seems mean-spirited. :-(
Ca'n't you enjoy a bit of fun? (Note how I wrote "ca'n't" there -- just as Carroll did.) Ca'n't you appreciate an exercise in typography using Victorian conventions for a Victorian book?
You want to use Gothic letters and what-not, fine. You want to use special fonts, fine. Just don't mess with the standard Lojban typographic conventions and we've got no problems. (What do you call a drop-cap that isn't a capital letter?)
> There is an exception, however: I care very little about how stress is indicated. Stress marking (specifically between using caps or using an accent mark) has been a long-standing point of largely non-acrimonious discussion; as far as I can tell, that's an issue on which the community is somewhat divided, but no-one really cares all that much.
So... you're flexible when you wish to be. Fair enough. :-)
> Contrast this with using captials to mark the beginning of sentences or proper names which, as And says, is very much not-OK to most Lojbanists.
Well, I'm certainly not the first person to take an interest in such a convention, according to the archives of this list. Sure, plenty of people don't care for it, but at the end of the day I'm not trying to do any harm.
Michael