INTRODUCTION

This page contains resources relating to the constructed language Lojban. More information can be found from the Logical Language Group homepage.

SOFTWARE

I have created some software (called jbofi'e) to aid in checking grammatical correctness of lojban texts and to help in translating them into English.

jbofi'e now has its own separate page.

TRANSLATIONS

This is still work in progress.

Here is my attempt at translating the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. Also, here are some outputs of the parser/glosser above run on this work.

HTML version (-h switch)
Adobe acrobat version (-l -b switches followed by pdfLaTeX)

REFERENCE MATERIAL

I have taken the various dictionaries available on the LLG's homepage and formatted them to produce a set of highly compacted A4 pages suitable for mounting back-to-back and laminating. Most of the material is set in 5 point text, so you need to have good eyesight! However, there is such a huge volume of material that it needs to be set this small to get it into a reasonable number of pages.

There are 24 sides of A4 altogether consisting of :

A list of all the gismu (with their full definitions as in the gismu.tex file)
A list of all the rafsi showing the parent gismu and its English meaning
A list of all the cmavo
A list of all cmavo sorted by selma'o, with short English translation (useful for finding cmavo with related meanings and grammatical functions)
A copy of the bnf.300 reference grammar
A list of English to gismu/cmavo translations. I generated this by looking for all English words occuring in the definitions of the gismu and cmavo, sorting them, and filtering out all the 'filler' words that occurred in too many gismu/cmavo without being directly relevant to most of them (words like 'the', 'a', 'is' and so on plus many others).
Several of the tables from the various chapters of the reference grammar, plus a list of cmavo in the order they are introduced in the grammar (I find some of these definitions useful as a reminder.)

The dictionary is available in either Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format or in Postscript (compressed using gzip). (Note : when printed out the Postscript version has a blank page at the end. Without this I was finding the last real page didn't get printed.)

NEW! I have managed to unearth the sources I used for creating the dictionaries. They are available in .tar.gz format or .tar.bz2 format. After unpacking the archive of your choice to a temporary directory, enter the command

sh ./build

This assumes that you have perl, latex and pdflatex on your path. If you don't have pdflatex, the last command in the script will fail, but you will still have the postscript version of the dictionary.

There are a few clean-ups that could be done to the dictionary:

The cmavo which have rafsi are missing from the gismu list at the start. This makes it a bit harder to find the rafsi for those cmavo.
The sort order for the English->Lojban table is broken.
6 cmavo are missing from the cmavo table. These are the six that were added more recently than the cmavo file I used. They are bi'e, ce'e, ce'u, ju'e, pe'e and re'u. I suspect there are some obsolete cmavo listed too.

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