Of course. I don't have any issues with the standard layout. The problem
I'm having is with boxed layout.
To take a simple example:
* ⎕PW←30*
* 29⎕CR ⍳15*
┏→━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
━━━━━━┓
┃1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
━━━━━━┛
Here, it seems as though ⎕PW is looked at *before* the ⎕CR formatting
happens. I would much rather it look something like this, just as an
example:
┏→━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ↲ ┃
┃ ↳ 13 14 15 ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
The formatting looks bad on my email client, but I'm hoping you get the
idea. I basically want ⎕CR to know about the print width, and format the
output in a way that is manageable. The reason for this is that I usually
set ]BOXING when working in APL, and whenever I display arrays with more
than, say, 30-40 elements I keep having to turn off ]BOXING just in order
to be able to make sense of what I'm seeing.
Regards,
Elias
On 31 January 2017 at 19:32, Juergen Sauermann <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Elias
>
> like how?
>
> One thing could be to set ⎕*PW←1000* but that only avoids the indentation
> of subsequent lines.
> Another way is to X←⍕BIG_MATRIX and then use ↑ and ↓ to display pieces of
> X. Another simple
> trick is to ⍉ the dara before *⎕CR*ing it.
>
> The general problem is that the way APL2 prints its output has been around
> for very long, already
> since APL times, so changing it today will certainly confuse a number of
> people (including myself).
>
> /// Jürgen
>
>
> On 01/31/2017 05:35 AM, Elias Mårtenson wrote:
>
> When printing a one-dimensional array which is wider than ⎕PW, and using
> a ⎕CR mode which uses box-drawing characters such as 8 or 29, the output is
> quite unreadable.
>
> For example, with ⎕PW←89 (standard for my Emacs session) this is what I
> get when printing ⍳100:
>
> * 29⎕CR ⍳100*
> ┏→━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
> ┃1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
> 28 29 30 31 32 3
> 3 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55
> 56 57 58 59 60
> 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83
> 84 85 86 87 88
> 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100┃
> ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
>
> There must be a way to primat this in a nicer way.
>
> Regards,
> Elias
>
>
>
