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Re: Current documentation outline

From:Irina Rempt <ira@...>
Date:Monday, September 11, 2000, 18:33
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Adrian Morgan wrote:

> Documentation is dependent on content. If a language has some unusual or > complex feature in its grammar, the documentation must work around this.
Concedo. Which doesn't mean that the general layout of what you did can't be useful as a model for people who are not naturally as thorough.
> Because each conlang has its own needs, it doesn't make sense to model > the documentation on someone else's. And when that someone else is as > much an amateur as it's possible to be, I have to wonder what is really > behind the apparent flattery.
Admiration, probably.
> P.S. One o' these days I'm gonna pinch a whole bunch of words from > Valdyan, for my vocab.
You're welcome :-) It may be of some interest to you that 'dragon' is _brach_, plural _brachi_. Irina -- Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay. irina@valdyas.org (myself) http://www.valdyas.org/irina/valdyas