From nicholas@uci.edu Wed Mar 28 12:54:23 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: nicholas@uci.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 28 Mar 2001 20:54:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 53787 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2001 20:53:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 28 Mar 2001 20:53:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO e4e.oac.uci.edu) (128.200.222.10) by mta3 with SMTP; 28 Mar 2001 21:54:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (nicholas@localhost) by e4e.oac.uci.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA06083; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:53:11 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: e4e.oac.uci.edu: nicholas owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:53:11 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: To: Cc: Nick NICHOLAS Subject: Level 0 Package Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Nick NICHOLAS .i mi nu'o cusku la'edi'e bau la lojban. .i ku'i mi ca'a lazni Tying in with a preceding not-strictly-relevant thread, I'm letting you know that I am taking over the task of editing and publishing the Level 0 introductory Lojban booklet, as agreed at the last Logfest. The intent was to have something readily available for print-on-demand and online. This means, of course, that a manipulable text format is required. The tagset I am familiar with is TEI (www.tei-c.org), which is designed for the marking up of literary and philological texts. Nonetheless, in the interest of advancing my CV :-) , and given the background of people here, I will be doing it in DocBook. I am by avocation a Mac user --- which doesn't help much, as the Mac is hardly a priority platform for SGML/XML apps. :-( The XML work I do for a living, I do on NT. Furthermore, I switched from computer science to linguistics just before I would have learned TeX; I don't know it, and haven't got a free year to learn it. :-) This means I may need help from people in customising the TeX/PDF output. The real fun, obviously, is going to be customising the stylesheets, though other than introducing a Lojban font, I'll try and keep this to a minimum. It also seems I have undertaken to finish off Robin Turner's lessons, which will be included in the package. I will be posting these on my website for comment as I do them. .i da djica lenu la jbojitro cu zukte de .inaja da ba .ei zukte de -- Momenton senpretende paseman mi retenis kaj # NICK NICHOLAS. kultis kvazaux # TLG, UCI, USA. senhorlogxan elizeon # www.opoudjis.net (Dume: # nicholas@uci.edu [Victor Sadler, _Memkritiko_ 90] #