{"id":182,"date":"2008-07-29T20:48:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T03:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2008-07-29T20:48:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T03:48:07","slug":"on-latex-self-publishing-and-another-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/29\/on-latex-self-publishing-and-another-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"On LaTeX, self publishing, and another dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though progress continues to be slow, the textbook project is finally turning into something I’m getting excited about. Lately, I’ve been thinking about layout and presentation.<\/p>\n

Here is the second dialogue designed to demonstrate positive and negative state-of-being for nouns and adjectives. As usual, this deceptively simple conversation had a lot of thought put into it. This dialogue will be followed by pretty standard explanations of the conjugation rules and a brief description of \u3088 and \u306d.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n
\n\u30b9\u30df\u30b9\uff1a\u3000\u304a\u306f\u3088\u3046\u3002
\n\u30ad\u30e0\uff1a\u3000\u3000\u304a\u306f\u3088\u3046\u3002
\n\u30b9\u30df\u30b9\uff1a\u3000\u5143\u6c17\uff1f
\n\u30ad\u30e0\uff1a\u3000\u3000\u3042\u307e\u308a\u5143\u6c17\u3058\u3083\u306a\u3044\u3002
\n\u30b9\u30df\u30b9\uff1a\u3000\u305d\u3046\uff1f
\n\u30ad\u30e0\uff1a\u3000\u3000\u3046\u3093\u3002\u6700\u8fd1\u3001\u3068\u3066\u3082\u5fd9\u3057\u3044\u3002
\n\u30b9\u30df\u30b9\uff1a\u3000\u3044\u3044\u306d\u3002
\n\u30ad\u30e0\uff1a\u3000\u3000\u5168\u7136\u3088\u304f\u306a\u3044\u3088\u3002\n<\/td>\n		Smith: Morning.
\nKim: Morning
\nSmith: How are you?
\nKim: Not very good.
\nSmith: Is that so?
\nKim: Yeah. I’m very busy lately.
\nSmith: That’s good.
\nKim: It’s not good at all.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
    \n
  1. \u304a\u306f\u3088\u3046 [casual, exp] – Good Morning<\/li>\n
  2. \u5143\u6c17\uff08\u3052\u3093\u304d\uff09 [na-adj] – lively, healthy<\/li>\n
  3. \u3042\u307e\u308a [adv] – not very (used with negative)<\/li>\n
  4. \u305d\u3046 [adv] – so<\/li>\n
  5. \u3046\u3093 [casual] – yes<\/li>\n
  6. \u6700\u8fd1\uff08\u3055\u3044\u304d\u3093\uff09 [adv] – lately<\/li>\n
  7. \u3068\u3066\u3082 [adv] – very<\/li>\n
  8. \u5fd9\u3057\u3044\uff08\u3044\u305d\u304c\u3057\u3044\uff09 [i-adj] – busy<\/li>\n
  9. \u3044\u3044 [i-adj] – good<\/li>\n
  10. \u5168\u7136\uff08\u305c\u3093\u305c\u3093\uff09 [adv] – not at all (used with negative)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    As you can see, it uses a two-column format for the Japanese and English translation. I debated on adding a kana-only version but couldn’t figure out how to fit it in. In the end, I decided if the vocabulary with the readings are right there, the reader shouldn’t have much trouble figuring it out. I’m still debating whether or not to add furigana however.<\/p>\n

    Though I had initially wanted to concentrate on the content only, I decided I should also think about the layout, presentation, and format. This is especially important for creating a printable book because I have to think about what size paper I want to use. And DocBook, as we know, deliberately leaves out any shred of formatting information<\/a>. So I’m looking into setting up LaTeX and will see how that works out soon enough I hope.<\/p>\n

    I’m also looking into Lulu.com<\/a> for self publishing. They even do audio CDs<\/a> though they don’t currently package it with a book. Now all I have to do is figure out how to find other speakers besides myself for the characters and how to get some recording done with reasonably professional quality.<\/p>\n

    But first, I guess I should concentrate on writing the rest of the book. The next dialogue will cover the polite positive and negative state-of-being and the question marker \u300c\u304b\u300d but that’s a topic for another blog post.<\/p>\n

    Random question, why do spell checkers keep telling me “dialogue” is misspelled? It is a word, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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