Despite of what Joey is saying, it's undeniable
that in good printed typesetting APL symbols
look attractively expressive.
Unfortunately, due to limitations of past technologies,
attempt to render screen APL fonts were not always
as good looking.
However, more recent facilities to render screen fonts
present new possibilities to bring the aesthetics appeal
of printed APL to the screen. Such as antialiased fonts
and ClearType sub-pixel rendering.
APL has the advantage of expressing many terms in one
symbol, and it uses familiar intuitive symbols instead
of new ones that need to be learnt.
A ⥠B â greater A >. B NB. greater
â§/ A â reduce And *./A NB. insert And
--- Roger Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How is the APL {lamp} symbol an improvement over
> NB. as far as being more understandable/readable?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Markus Triska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2007 11:17 am
> Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Displaying J with Unicode Special Symbols
>
> > Joey K Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I agree with Roger that +/ and */ convey a concept better than Sigma
> > > and Pi - and indeed, as he asks, "What about *./ etc.?"
> >
> > I agree with that. On the other hand, there are Unicode APL symbols
> > that J can benefit from, like {lamp} (= U+235D) for comments.
> >
> > > All of this begs the issue that not only is it hard to communicate
> > > using these symbols (I'm not even trying in this message) the
> > > results are just plain UGLY in terms of display. (this may be a
> > > bias from the hundreds of hours I have spent in trying to make APL
> > > characters look nice) My opinion of the unicode APL characters is
> > > that they look like a ransom note font (i.e. one clipped from
> >
> > Unicode doesn't specify how a symbol ought to be displayed, so you can
> > use any font or method you like for display. Regarding communication:
> > It's easy nowadays to install a Unicode-aware editor or use a UTF-8
> > capable mailer; browsers support it too (try the group's web archive).
> >
> > All the best,
> > Markus Triska
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