LaTeX!!!

Znajomy namówił mnie na zainstalowanie LaTeX dla blogspot, a nawet na zachętę dał mi LaTeXowy kod do testowania:

$\int sin(x) dx $

and

\[
\int sin(x) dx
\]

Dziękuję!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dabagrams 0-9

I'll post dabanese syntax in this blog (at this dabanese home page) later. (If you are impatient then see my dabanese knol index, in particular my dabanese syntax knol. I will, somewhat casually, use dabanese syntax here anyway.

Here let me present the chronologically first 10 dabagrams. I will honor the order given by me earlier in knol Dabanese - dictionary (1), where at this moment the first 20 official dabagrams are displayed (in a table). The chronological order of introducing the dabagrams is not logical. The logical (partial) ordering of dabagrams is given by their daba order. The chronological order of a dabagram is recorded by its daba index.

In a sequence of blog posts I will systematically present chronologically consecutive dabagrams in special tables, while for the sake of discussion I will also mention some dabagrams out of order. The best way of demonstrating dabagrams is daba itself, with its software tools but I don't have them at this time (and, I am afraid, it will not happen overnight).

The table of dabagrams includes their source like:

* chem := chemistry
* cmp sci := computer science
* En := English
* mth := mathematics
* phys := physics
* Pl := Polish
* set th := set theory
* etc

Here (below) is the table:

Dabagrams 0-9

id	daba- gram	Pigeon or True	macro	narrow meaning	suggested general meaning	source
0	daba ∀	P T		daba	everything, totality	W.H. mth
1	:=	T		functional definition	definition in general	cmp sci
2	∃	T		existence		mth
3	=	T		equality	sameness, identicality	mth
4	{} ∅	T T	{ }	nothingness	emptiness, negation	mth, set th
5	mtr	P		matter	material, a (non-abstract, physical) thing	En
6	mng	P		meaning	idea	En
7	df ⇐:⇒	P T	{ mng [ := ] }		definition of meaning, of a statement	En mth, logic
8
9

(work in progress; to be continued)

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.

Introduction

This blog from now on, until I decide otherwise, is the official dabanese home page.

Dabanese is a modern international written language. Like written Chinese language, dabanese is not a spoken language. A dabanese text can be (if at all) pronounced by different people in completely different ways (just like Chinese texts).

I am developing dabanese since 1985 (but not intensively). It has achieved its mature structure around year 2005. I have written about dabanese on several Internet sites in the past few years (see for instance knols), however I have decided to make this one here main.

Dabanese, like Chinese, uses ideograms, which are called dabagrams. Until I have a convenient computer graphics system, I will use mostly not true but pigeon dabagrams like "dom" for English "home". One of the true dabagrams for water is H₂O.

The meaning and the grammatical aspect of a text are separated in dabanese. The grammatical features of a dabagram or of a dabanese phrase are non-existent in the dabagram or in the phrase itself--they are given purely by its position within its super-phrase (containing the given dabagram or phrase). In other words, dabanese has no grammar, it has only syntax (a very simple one).

Dabanese is a part of the universal data base daba. Once a record is entered into daba, it gets its chronological id, and it stays there forever. In particular, every official element of dabanese stays in dabanese forever. Thus dabanese texts will have always the same interpretation within daba and dabanese. Dabanese texts will not lose their readability with the time passing. On the other hand dabanese is a dynamic language, meant to absorb new trends. It is possible because instead of replacing the original meaning of dabagrams and phrases by the new ones, dabaners (writers of dabanes) will create new dabagrams and phrases. Thus some dabanese dabagrams and phrases may become archaic (rarely used) but they will remain unchanged. It's different in the case of natural languages, their words and phrases change their meaning and usage over the time dramatically.

As a rule, the meaning of a dabagram or of a dabanese phrase (especially of a short one) is not specific, it depends strongly of the context. However, dabanese provides the narrow meaning for its dabagrams, and separately also strong suggestions about the wider meaning. To provide complete meaning is not feasable, and dabanese does not make any attempt in such a direction. If you think about it, the situation in the case of natural languages is similar, despite the futile ambition of the dictionaries which serve natural languages. Indeed, the important part of the everyday human communication is the common poetic ability, which allows symbolism (metaphors), analogies (similes) and kennings.

While dabanese will feel natural to dabaners, the development of daba and dabanese will be utmost carefully guided by logic. The daba-dabnese relation is somewhat similar to C-Unix.

Advantages of dabanese over other languages are quite obvious:

• dabanese is a stable in time superior communication vehicle;
• learning dabanese gives a bonus of learning about the subjects touched upon by the language (e.g. word "water" by itself does not teach anything, it just strains memory; but dabagram H₂O will help a child to be ready for chemistry);
• dabanese shapes the brain better than other languages; thus dabanese will help to create a more intelligent and nicer society.