Re: Critique needed for lessons

On 5/24/06, Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 May 2006, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> >
> > I've started making lessons for Taruven, there is one up so far at
> Other comments:
>  - references to Example 5 etc are confusing, since
> you don't have a number 5 on the relevant examples!
This seems to be a problem with the way IE parses
an <OL> whose first <LI> is empty of text and
only contains another <OL>.  I made a copy of the
Taruven lesson page and added a &nbsp; as content
of the otherwise empty <LI>, and the 4 and 5 appeared.

>  - If "it is important to know when to use an optional
> feature, and when not to" ... is it really optional?  For
> if using or omitting it is a mistake, surely it is required?
>  - Some readers will be stymied bby not knowing how
> to pronounce your non-Latin characters.
Yes; the first, or zeroth, lesson, should introduce the
phonology and orthography (and maybe some basic
words and simple sentence structures).  Then you
can go on to this stuff as lesson 2 or 3.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry