Heill Óskar!

I looked at the yahoogroup file area, and copied over
lessons 1 and 2 in the ascii versions. I cannot choose
the WORD versions, because I only have an older Woord version,
and since Microsoft wants to force people to keep buying the
latest version, they've made sure that older versions cannot
read newer files.

There is however an option available, and that is to save
the Word file in the RTF format. When you have opened
a file in Word, you can always save it in the RTF format
by choosing "save as..." from the "file" menu. You then get
an extra file copy that is not in the *doc format, but is in
file format RTF, that a larger class of word processors is
able to open. The RTF format includes many text formating
instructions that are not available for ascii files. It
is almost as good as the *doc format itself.

Any way, I copied the file over in its ascii format into my
favorite word processor which is "Write Now". (a word star
product - it too has the RFT option, and can hence communicate
with Word through this format)

I found out, then, that in 10 pt fonts, lesson 1 is 12 pages,
and lesson 2 is 18. That means we are going to have a lot of
pages after a while. In particular, I think it is going to
be a lot of work for you to make a good index, which is something
that is necessary when grammar books grow in size. For without
an index, they are very difficult to use. So maybe it will
be a good idea to use a grammar book written by third parties
after the first few steps have been learned through your quick
method. I know the Viking Society recently brought out a new
Old Norse text book, and it is supposed to be good. By Michael
Barnes I think. I am suggesting this, because I should not
like to see you guys spend a lot of effort when there already exist
several alternatives. Unless of course you intend to outdo
the competition ;) In that case, I think your masterly cartoons
will be one of the important assets, that might just give you that
little extra edge..

Any way, you are producing an internet Old Norse course, and that has
never been done before. No doubt you are both going to be famous one day!
Because there will now exist an internet alternative world wide.
And the course is already outdoing anything else that I have seen.

What I missed in the file area were two things:

1) A read-me file or FAQ that contains the URL to Haukur's web page.
2) The file that deals with ON pronounciation. (SAMPA file)


I actually did find the SAMPA file in my attachment directory.
But as a Word file it was hopelessly corrupt, though I was
avle to rectify it to some degree after working on it for an
hour or so.

But I am not sure if all the symbols are 100%.

I will now reenter the file area and do a search for the URL, just
to test, as it were, what difficulties and possibilities of solution
would meet a random yahoogroups visitor who might be interested in finding
out more.

Until soon then.
Keth

>Might it be an idea to make a sig file for the listmail, that
>gives the URL for Hauk's home page?