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Re: [lojban] la .alis.

On 31 Mar 2010, at 16:54, Luke Bergen wrote:

>> Sure, but my point was valid. If you can "enjoy" typography which is maximally illegible, as well as standard typography which you're all used to, there is surely room for an attempt at maximal legibility. :-)
> 
> I suppose that's a valid point.  I just fear (perhaps wrongly) that you're not interested in legibility so much as being standard to "victorian typography" or whatever.

Actually my view is that standard Latin typography has evolved the way it has over the past 500 years because it enhances legibility.

> I wonder if you would feel differently about the legibility of lojban if you knew it or had read it over a long period of time.

Since I have worked with writing systems of so very many kinds for so long, I think it is safe for me to be able to predict that I would always consider current standard Lojban typographic conventions to be detrimental to easy legibility, as it is nothing but "a wall of words". 

> I know other oldbies might disagree with me, but I find our typography as it is now sufficiently legible and maximally elegant.

Elegant means many things. I take it you mean elegant as in a nice proof, rather than elegant like a soft velvet jacket.

> I just don't want to sacrifice elegance/long-standing-lojbanic-standards on the alter of "victorian standards" under the guise of legibility.  I see this whole thing as another form of gross malglico.

Hah! I read this as Esperanto, and thought "'Malglico'? 'Sourness'?".

Having read http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MalGlico I will just say that standard Latin typography is rather widespread and by no means restricted to English, and leave it at that.

Michael

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