From hezekiah@cs.utexas.edu Fri Sep 17 22:38:27 1999 X-Digest-Num: 236 Message-ID: <44114.236.1289.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:38:27 -0500 From: John Arley Burns Subject: Lojban Word Processor Naturally anyone could use my auto-dictionary program, it's GPL'd. The only part not truely cross-platform is the hashed database, but I believe there are Perl modules to fix this now. Anyone writing in perl could piggyback off this effort. In addition, perl is very cross-platform, and the perl Gtk module will work with unix and windows and mac. Interesting features specific to lojban would include: Lojban grammar checker (a parser) Lojban grammar diagram (parser tree) Lojban-*/*-Lojban dictionary for many * languages Using unicode and multi-locale, we could support many languages Perlmacs/Emacs interface? Smart spell checkers (can use GNU ispell) Auto-translator of Lojban-*, for supported *'s (this is the most exciting part, and the most work. But only lojban could currently give you good quality auto-translation) Web links from grammar diagram to online reference grammar Simplified 'comprehension-test' generator using Nick's semantic analyzer, for simple sentences. Useful for teaching and self-evaluation. Allow easy, automated submission of lojban writings to the lojban archive. LaTeX markup output of a Lojban LaTeX environment to make the quotes, periods, case, and "ni'o"s look nice in printed/postscript output. Auto-convert document to HTML, Lojban XML, DocBook Auto spelling converters (s/h/H/g; s/'/h/g; and more sophisticated case changing, indenting). Auto formatting of quotations, prenex (into TeX math? :-), math expressions, etc. This would probably be part of the LaTeX package, but could also have useful HTML/XML and DocBook output. Just some ideas... co'o mi'e djan.