Consistency with nearly everything else that has been written in lojban thus far?
I mean, I am certainly a newbie, and maybe my understanding is flawed, but I was under the impression that not much of anything had been written in Lojban--the Alice text, the Tao Te Ching, maybe the Declaration of Independence, plus a handful of original works. Unless I am wrong about how much text there is, I don't think that small corpus that exists now should preclude any change whatsoever. xorxes indicated earlier in this thread that he'd be happy to revise la .alis. and work with others, and then post an updated/corrected version. Why couldn't the capitalization and punctuation be changed at the same time?
Chris