From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Mon Mar 26 14:06:28 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 26 Mar 2001 22:06:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 93925 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2001 22:06:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 26 Mar 2001 22:06:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta1 with SMTP; 26 Mar 2001 22:06:26 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id RAA12621 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:13:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:13:24 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Marketing lojban Message-ID: <20010326171323.A11825@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <99l2m8+4r97@eGroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jay.kominek@colorado.edu on Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:18:20AM -0700 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:18:20AM -0700, Jay Kominek wrote: > I figure the textbook is a text_book_. The ultimate goal is to have it > printed and distributed to students in classrooms. Therefore, it shouldn't > just look okay printed, it should look great printed, and printed quality > should be the first concern. > > My plans are: > 1 Take the textbook, convert it very structurally described LaTeX. > 2 Fill out the sections missing material > 3 Add examples > 4 Accept corrections and new material > 5 Repeat 2 through 4 until somebody clubs me over the head and takes it > away, or somebody publishes it. > > Unless anyone else was planning on doing roughly the above, then I believe > the best way to run things and make them look good is to use LaTeX. I want to offer my full moral support here. 8) I have personally chosen not to get seriously into _any_ lojban project until I'm verbally fluent, though. If the classes I'm running work out well, I'll post the outlines, as I'm happy with the way I'm doing them. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP