On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Michael Everson
<michael.everson@gmail.com> wrote:
On 29 Mar 2010, at 18:06, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> The thing is, typography and orthopgraphy are not the same thing.
Ah, I was behind in my reading. Thank you for
> Lojban uses the Latin orthography, but it does not use the Latin typography.
Well. What you mean is that writers who write Lojban use Latin, or Tengwar, or Cyrillic orthography. (Lojban itself is a language, and languages don't use anything.)
As for your second point, I think that what you mean is that the standard Lojban orthography tends to make use of the capitalization and punctuation common in Latin typography in a different way than other languages do.
Except of course that some people use acute vowels instead of capital vowels for anomalous stress,
Insofar as Lojban is concerned, {la.mari,án.} and {la.mari,An.} are the same thing. {la.mari,An.} is much more common, as "A" is easier to type. (On standard U.S. keyboard, for instance, "A" is <shift>+a, "á" is <alt>+<numpad 0,2,2,5>.)
and some people use guillemets,
I've never seen that used in actual writing.
and some people use question marks and exclamation marks.
I've never seen that used in actual writing.
At least that's what people are saying.
No, people are saying they *can* be. Not that they *are*.
But those are variations of Latin typographic conventions used to write the language.
Those are non-standard conventions, yes.