Lojban Level 0 Booklet and Lessons


[ENGLISH] [LOJBAN]

You can read this page: in English; bau la lojban.

Distribution

Level 0 Booklet: What is Lojban?

FormatViewzip
DocBook (source)[CVS]Brochure
RTFBrochure
RTF (mac)Brochure
RTF (paperback size)Brochure
RTF (paperback size) (mac)Brochure
PDFBrochure
PDF (paperback size)Brochure
TeXBrochure
HTMLBrochureBrochure
HTML (unicode)BrochureBrochure

Lessons: Lojban for Beginners

FormatViewzip
DocBook (source)[CVS]Lessons
RTFLessons
RTF (mac)Lessons
RTF (paperback size)Lessons
RTF (paperback size) (mac)Lessons
PDFLessons
PDF (paperback size)Lessons
TeXLessons
HTMLLessonsLessons
HTML (unicode)LessonsLessons

Fonts

The PC RTF uses the fonts: Gentium, Trebuchet MS, Optima.

The Mac RTF uses the fonts: SILSophiaIPA, Andale Mono, Trebuchet MS, Constantin.

Credits

The Level 0 package, What is Lojban?, was edited by Nick Nicholas and John Cowan. It is based on:

The Lessons, Lojban for Beginners, were written by Robin Turner and Nick Nicholas. They are based on Robin Turner's earlier draft.

Technical

It is intended that this document be made available in a variety of formats: HTML, PDF, TeX and RTF. As a result, it is being authored in XML, and in particular DocBook.

While my loyalties lie with TEI instead as an encoding scheme (the TEI is intended to cover literary texts, while DocBook was designed for technical documentation), DocBook currently holds a slight edge in rendering: it has a current DSSSL stylesheet, while the TEI has COST and XSL solutions, neither of which was quite what I needed. However, DSSSL has largely been abandoned in favour of XSL; as that standard develops, the TEI will be a better long-term solution.

The documents have been generated using James Clark's venerable Jade DSSSL engine, with Norman Walsh's DocBook stylesheets. Some instructions on set-up are available; let me know of any problems you might have setting things up on your own system. You will also need my DocBook tools for compilation.

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Created and Maintained by: Nick Nicholas, [email protected]
Created: 2002-10-4
Last revision: 2003-3-17