Re: Boreanesian in the Web (was: Why Triggers?)

En réponse à Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>:

>
> Changing the romanization scheme so that it does not use special
> consonants
> is no problem. Vowels is a problem though. I need the ogonek (nasal
> hook)
> on accented and unaccented <i> <e> <a> <u>. AFAIK, HTML cannot render
> these
> at all.
>
Why not a superscript 'n' for that? Superscripts and subscripts are quite easy
to make.

> I'm almost entirely HTML illiterate, I'm afraid. What I was thinking
> of
> doing was simply saving my Word documents as HTML. Of course, there is
> no guarantee that this is 100% safe.
>
Moreover, it makes monstruous webpages, trust me :) . I can teach you the
basics of HTML, at least enough to do simple pages like mine. It's quite easy
in fact. But if I have to do it by e-mail, we have to be sure that your mail
program doesn't translate HTML :)) . Or you can look on Internet. There are
plenty of pages about learning HTML.

> Come to think of it, the safest conversion that I know of is PDF. The
> Acrobat Reader is free for download and once installed can be used
> together with a browser.
>
True, but then you cannot do hypertext, links and the like, IIRC. The whole
point of Internet is that you can navigate easily. If you have to download a
PDF file each time you move from one chapter to another, it's gonna be awful.
No, I think you should take the time to learn HTML (it took me one hour to
learn enough HTML to begin making my webpage, so you see how easy it is). As
for transcription, remember that HTML allows also subscripts and superscripts.
It can help a lot.

> Yeah, I think I'll convert all my documents into PDF and put it up in
> the
> web! All I have to get now is the conversion program, Adobe Acrobat,
> which
> unfortunately is not free. I've been meaning to do this ages ago, but,
> being
> the stingy person that I am, never had the heart to buy Adobe Acrobat.
> It is
> about time I do so now -- cost what it may.
>
At least, learning HTML is free, and having wordpad, emacs or even notepad or
vi is largely enough! I can help you if you need it. Still, I think developing
the page in HTML will be as fast as buying Acrobat and converting the files.

> -----<snip>-----
> > So tell me when you want me to create you an account, and the name you
> want to
> > give it (an account named "boreanesia" would make a webpage called
> > http://boreanesia.free.fr. I think that it's nice personnally). In
> fact, I even
> > think you could subscribe in Free yourself, but this way is faster,
> easier, you
> > don't have to read instructions in French :)), and moreover you don't
> need to
> > give an address in France :))
>
> I like the webpage name already. But with regards to "when", I'll have
> to get back to you on that one. First thing is first, I have to get my
> hands on Adobe Acrobat. Then I have to make sure that the conversion
> of
> my word documents go smoothly.
>
OK. But still think of it. PDF is not a very user-friendly format for Internet
surfing. PDF files optionally accessible for people who want a complete version
of the grammar to print down is a very good idea. Having only PDF files is not
nice in my opinion.

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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