The (visual) verb could be very handy for creating J documentation.
Especially when building eBooks that display J boxed displays. Please make
sure there is a version that spits out the raw HTML.
It's amazing that here we are in the 21st century and box drawing
characters are still a pain in the posterior.
The other day I was updating the LaTeX version of all my blog posts bm.pdf,
("blog master" or "bowel movement"), and found that the pipe character
LuaLaTex was substituting in the font I was using was proportional thereby
throwing off the alignment in lstlisting environments: arghhhhh!!! I
ended up
"fixing" this issue with:
NB. lstlisting oriented portable box drawing characters
pipechars=:[: 9!:7 '+++++++++!-'"_ [ ]
Which sneaks in ! for |. I was not amused.
Cheers
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:40 AM, 'Pascal Jasmin' via General <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Looks really good, Bob.
>
> The boxing is especially impressive. Something you did in one of the
> videos, that I could not spot in the script file is "enhanced display
> mode" where everything that prints to console is "visualized" (very
> curious in how that's even possible).
>
> While a workable alternative to using your system comes from defining and
> using
>
> lr =: 3 : '5!:5 < ''y'''
>
> you will use v or lr only when things are going wrong, and the enhanced
> display is really nice to automatically hook into the console display
> without modifying your code at all.
>
> A classic example, you might have included in your videos:
>
> let's get the 2nd of 2 elements in a pair (mistake)
>
> }. 1 22 NB. that looks right
>
> 1 2 ,. 3 + }. 1 2 NB. adding 3 would have looked right, but making 2 pairs
> fails
> |length error
>
> 1 2 ,. 3 + {: 1 2
> 1 5
> 2 5
>
>
> the automatic mode is really useful for that interactive building of
> expressions where you build it one verb at a time to see intermediate
> results, but don't see the problem until a later operation.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: robert therriault <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc:
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 11:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] NYCJUG Tuesday, 7/14 18:30, Heartland basement,
> 34th Street & Fifth Avenue, NYC
>
> Devon,
>
> I'm sure that there will be lots of things to discuss between Joe Bogner's
> MicroJ and Henry Rich's dissect, but I would appreciate any feedback the
> group has on the enhanced display that I recently put up on the jwiki.
>
> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/BobTherriault/Enhanced%20J%20Display
>
> Cheers, bob
>
> On Jul 9, 2015, at 1:21 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The regularly-scheduled meeting will be held at the same bat-time, the
> same
> > bat-location, as it usually is: the Heartland Brewery, 34th and Fifth,
> NYC.
> >
> > Hope to see some new faces!
> >
> > Devon
> >
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