Hi Viktor, Do you have any interest in joining the J wiki Zoom meeting that occurs in about 7 and a half hours at 23:00 (UTC). If you are in a time zone that is not convenient for that, I am also thinking of adding a second meeting time that that may be more convenient for people on the other side of the planet from me. In any case, I think that we would be very interested in the project that you propose and would be looking at incorporating it into the J wiki as well.
Let me know if you can make today's meeting and I will email you a link. Cheers, bob > On May 12, 2022, at 08:17, 'Viktor Grigorov' via General > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey, > > Awhiles back, in the programming mailing list in one thread, there were a few > comments one user made about still having the two J604 pages [0] printed out > on his desk. They are a great tool for somebody unfamiliar with the language > the get a feel of what does what, or just as a quick reminder, but they also > lack details, in my opinion. The dictionary [1] is great, as is NuVoc [2], > however all of the old J site's pages are clumsily styled, e.g., on a > 1920x1080 screen, there is little reason to not fit all entries within one > screen, same with nuvoc, to be honest, I have local pages with for my use > better css; other example would be Learning J's whole content with within a > table with the first column empty, rather than using a margin. > > That said, I wanted to make a refsheet for myself, then I remember the above > and thought it might be worth something to ask others' opinion on making a > new refsheet in the formats: pdf, html, plain text, plain text + ANSI escape > codes for color, and markdown. Attached is my WIP, wherein I've yet to figure > out how to get the footnotes containing valueable-not-to-forget information > to show up, I can send the source files, if somebody wishes to work with or > contribute. My use of J is oriented towards maximizing tacitness, so I > thought it useful to have equivalencies of more complicated primitives > (albeit badly implemented since I'm a novice at best). But, then again, the > originals examples are valuable, and, then again again, dictionaries show the > meaning of words through definitions usings words elsewhere in the dictionary > defined combined with usage examples. Though some verbs like plus are a most > basic instruction for probably all CPUs, so I wouldn't initially know how to > 'define' it through other opperations other than bitshifts of binary > representations of the numbers or something. > > The ordering of the tables will be the lastmost step. That said, I'll > appreciate any critique, suggestions, recommendations, comments, you might > have. > > [0] https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/File:J602_RefCard_color_letter_current.pdf > [1] https://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/vocabul.htm > [2] https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
