Re: webifying Tokana (was Re: LUNATIC again)

Matt Pearson wrote:

> I suppose that, in spite of my hectic schedule, I could try to get some
> software to convert my Word files into HTML.
As others have noted, Word's idea of HTML is awesomely bad.  However,
there is a freely available tool called "HTML Tidy" (downloadable
from http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ in both source and
DOS/Windows forms) which can repair all sorts of HTML brain damage.

> The Tokana Reference Grammar
> fills around 160 pages of hardcopy text, and is divided into about 75
> sections and subsections, each of which should probably be a webpage of
> its own.
I suggest having fewer Web pages, perhaps one for each section,
with a full hyperlink index (plenty of people, including me, will be
glad to help create).  That makes it easier to download and print
single copies.

> I doubt seriously if the UCLA Humanities Computing Office
> (which maintains my homepage) would allow me to upload that much stuff.
> So what to do?
I would also be happy to host the TRG on my site, where I have plenty
of space but not much bandwidth.  If the whole Internet starts to
learn Tokana, it may have to move elsewhere.  :-)

Tokana is one of the few serious conlang efforts *by professional
linguists* that is in any stage resembling completion (Tepa is
another, Livagian is still unstable).  We need it easily available as
"the very model of a modern model grammar".

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)