This list doesn't allow attachments, so we didn't see your WIP.

Ref [0] needs updating.  I did the original, and then Ric Sherlock greatly improved it.  Ric still has the source for his version.  I have a list of my recommended changes for release 9, and if anyone wants to take this project on, they can get the source from Ric and the changes from me.

Henry Rich

On 5/12/2022 11:17 AM, 'Viktor Grigorov' via General 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
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