Re: Offlang suggestion & counterproposal

En réponse à Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:

>
> I think you guys, Christophe and Maarten, are both
> right (what a cliché, isn't it? :))) )
> Christophe did the right thing by immediately
> proposing to do it and approaching it in a very
> practical. That's the only way to make such an idea
> work; discussions about how and who and why and
> whether and when don't get us anywhere.
> I was an editor, too, so I understand Maarten's
> pessimistic perception about the initiative of
> copy-writers (maybe it is just a typical Dutch
> phenomenon ;) ). Looking at the extensive mail traffic
> on the list, however, I think the copy will be there,
> no doubt.
>
That's my opinion too :)) .

> Now what I think would be most sensible at the moment,
> is to find out whether people are really interested in
> such a journal/magazine. So, my proposal would be to
> start a poll on The List, with the questions like:
> - How badly do want a conlang journal/magazine?
> - How do you see it contents?
> - How often/much to you expect to contribute yourself?
> It could be an occasion to ask the LaTeX thing as
> well. Christophe, Maarten, what do you think?
>
It's a job for Peter Clark! He is the poll organiser of the list! :))

Hehe, in my last mail I exactly asked that :)) .

> BTW, I definitely would like to be of more assistance
> than just check spelling and interpunction. It's just
> that I'm am a simple Cool:Gen programmer working on a
> mainframe, with no idea of www things.
> I will definitely produce a few pages of text, though.
>
Well, it depends on the material you have, and what people want. If we go for a
LaTeX based thing but want to accept more formats as entry, we need people to
do the conversion (and I cannot do it alone). Even from RTF you still need to
do hand conversion, if only to make the cross-references. Unless you can
automatize that but I don't have the programming skills necessary for it :(( .
Not that I cannot learn, but I just know that it would take so much time that
the first issue couldn't be released before next year! :)) So anyone with any
skills and material is more than welcome :)) .

But first, a poll about the necessity of such work is necessary indeed.

Christophe.

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