From phma@webjockey.net Wed Oct 09 19:07:02 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_2_0); 10 Oct 2002 02:07:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 79917 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2002 02:06:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 Oct 2002 02:06:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Oct 2002 02:06:54 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 0396A3C47F; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:06:53 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Final Translation Wiki Idea: PLEASE READ. Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:06:48 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20021009175951.GP4649@digitalkingdom.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20021009200615.0310a710@pop.east.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20021009200615.0310a710@pop.east.cox.net> X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0210092206481A.02775@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Wednesday 09 October 2002 20:12, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > My only suggestion is that rather than working at "paragraph" or "chapter" > level that you chose an intermediate: blocks of text of "page" size, where > a page is no more than a chapter, no less than X lines, and starts and > stops on a paragraph boundary. X can be determined by looking at what is > typically a maximum workable wiki page size (no idea what that is), and > dividing by 4 (allowing for 1 line of English to 1 line of Lojban to 1-2 > lines of comment). Some books have very short chapters: "Shaking" and "Waking" in Through the Looking-glass, and Psalms 133 and 134, for example. phma