General remarks

Dabanese, like English, is meant to be read from left to right, and then downward a line after a line.

Every daba notion-record will be illustrated by one special unique example, called daba sample. In particular this holds for every dabagram. Actually, daba will have a dabagram for each daba record, so that daba records and the groups of synonymous dabagrams will be in a one to one correspondence. Going back to samples, for instance a record devoted to "chair" will have a description of one particular chair, including pictures of that chair, the time and place of its existence, etc. The role of the daba sample is to provide focus and a central reference for the notion represented by the example.

Daba notion-records are partially ordered. The daba order induces a partial quasi-order of dabagrams (synonymous dabagrams are equivalent). The daba order of notions is generated by the relations of belonging ∈ and inclusion ⊆ (daba order contributes to the meaning of dabagrams, so that the statement about generating is tautologically true--here is not a place to dwell on this interesting issue). The daba and dabagram partial order in general does not agree with the chronological order of introducing (creating) the records and dabagrams. The maximal dabagram is daba (a pigeon dabagram) or ∀ (a true dabagram). The minimal dabagram is ∅ (which stands for nothingness or emptiness, and it can be used in the context of negation).

Visually, the dabagrams are rectangles, which have clearly displayed vertical and horizontal edges. All (true) dabagrams within a single dabanese line of text have the same height (formally), while they may have different width. Since dabagrams may be arbitrarily wide, they may have arbitrary complexity. For the sake of readability, dabagrams may have empty margins at their top and/or bottom, so that actually they have variable height, except for the position of the top and the bottom edges, which within the same line are at fixed levels. Let me stress that a line of text is not a dabanese notion, it is purely a display notion.

Also, when using pigeon dabagrams, which consist mainly of ascii codes, we may use different size of the font, different fonts like bold, etc., but underscore and striking a code amounts in dabanese to a different code. For instance dom dom dom dom represent the same pigeon dabagram (equivalent of English "home"), while dom and dom are different (if they are dabagrams at all). Also, pigeon dabagrams are case sensitive.