Re: [lojban] Tangent the second: ASCII

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

Regarding the special font only:

The CLL uses a different font 
for Lojban than for English. For example:

Chapter 6, section 1:

If you understand anything about Lojban, you know what a sumti is by now, right? An argument, one of those things that fills the places of simple Lojban sentences like:

1.1)  mi klama le zarci
    I go-to the market
If you wanted to write Lojban and some other language in the same 
document, I would suggest using that practice.

That said, while I
 am not *against* using diacritic marking instead of capitals, that is 
pretty much the extent of my non-ASCII in Lojban acceptance.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Jim Carter <jimc@math.ucla.edu> wrote:

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Christopher Doty wrote:

I'm wondering how closely tied people are to the idea that, if a
hypothetical thing happened where Lojban got, say, tone, it should stick
with ASCII-only characters?  I realize there was a good reason for this in
the past, but I have trouble seeing a reasoning for it now.  Just wondering
how people feel about that now that Unicode has become the standard?  ASCII
is synonymous with "old-fashioned computing" to me, so just curious.

I've had no end of trouble getting my desktop environment to load a compose table that includes the accented characters I use and provides them to all my applications.  Thus I would prefer to minimize the use of non-ASCII characters.  But I like the aesthetics of the accents.

Someone else suggested a font in which upper case glyphs were similar to lower case but with an accent.  That sounds very nice for print media, but it would take some work, and meta-tags in the documents, to make the font appear on the fly for interspersed Lojban and non-Lojban messages or documents.  Charset:X-Lojban?

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