Re: ConLang Journal

En réponse à Paul Edson <conlang@...>:

>
> A word on Christophe's 'requirements' for submission format:
> If .rtf is acceptable, then no-one need worry about learning
> a new system! Just allow the muse to inspire you to fill
> screen after screen with text in Word or whatever program is
> closest to your heart and save as .rtf!
Well, as I said RTF is acceptable only because half the conversion can be done
automatically. But it would still give me a lot of work to do (if only to make
the cross-references right), but probably something I could handle if other
people can help. That's why I'd rather have LaTeX as a format of predilection,
though RTF (and HTML if I find a good converter) would be acceptable too, and
plain text and Word only as last resort, and only if I have people to help me
do the conversion. Three to five people including me would be okay. If I'm to
be alone or with only one person to do the conversion, I will only be able to
accept RTF and LaTeX.

 I'd also be happy to
> provide conversion to .pdf (and likely the space for posting
> in that format if necessary) if we have a PostScript
> end-product at some point along the line.
>
Thanks! I have all what I need to do the conversion myself though, and if the
result is not nice enough I think Maarten wouldn't mind getting a single
Postcript file and convert it to PDF through Acrobat, and that once every three
months :)) .

> Something I've been considering as a potential web-space use
> is a sort of linguistic petting zoo: interesting features of
> various nat- and con-langs gathered together by topics.
> "Complicated Consonant Clusters", "Noun Class Systems",
> "Languages with more than a dozen Cases..." that sort of
> thing. That might also be an interesting omnibus "column"
> for such a journal.
>
Nice idea!

As for other ideas, if you want them to be on a journal, do it! :)) (that's how
I make contributors :) )

Christophe.

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