From sfurlong@acmenet.net Tue Feb 06 11:49:21 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: sfurlong@acmenet.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_2_1); 6 Feb 2001 19:49:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 14104 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2001 19:49:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 6 Feb 2001 19:49:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO shell.acmenet.net) (206.152.182.1) by mta1 with SMTP; 6 Feb 2001 19:49:17 -0000 Received: from acmenet.net (hostatt195.cgiusa.com [12.30.57.195]) by shell.acmenet.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f16JnGa06135 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:49:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A805624.F9786624@acmenet.net> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 14:53:08 -0500 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Punctuation References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Steve Furlong Invent Yourself wrote: > > Getting jbofi'e to recognize weirder punctuation is trivial, simply run > the text through the most simple of search/replace functions. > > Which would you like, though? If we use "" for lu/li'u, what about > lo'u/lu'e and la'o gy.? > > In my text I use () for to/toi, and I've seen [] proposed for ke/ke'e, but > it seems there are a lot of other such cmavo too...continuing with ?=xu, > !=ba'e, ;=zo'u etc, we could make Lojban use every available symbol on the > keyboard, pounds yen and pipes, and get the perl-like line-noise language > we all secretly desire. Why stop there? Perl uses only the normal printable characters, less than 100 in all. Let's go straight to APL, which had a cast of thousands, or at least hundreds. That'll be the sign of the true l33t lojban hacker, the special keyboard with the extra modifier keys. SRF