Please see the reply I just posted to Bill Lam.
----- Original Message ----- From: Devon McCormick <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 7:17 Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Notation as a Tool of Thought To: General forum <[email protected]> > Roger - this looks very good - it will be an excellent link to > have for the > Turing site. > > However, the APL characters at first appeared not as nice as > they could be > until I loaded the APL385 font onto my machine (and re-loaded > the page). > Now they look fine. > > I don't know what the default was before I did this, but I did > see poorly > proportioned APL characters at first: jot was not centered in > the character > cell, quad was too short, the arrows were too long, and omega > was almost > closed at the top. It looked like perhaps a proportional > font of some kind. > > Does anyone know what font I was getting at first? It > might be good to warn > people as it was a little confusing to see this ugly version > when I first > loaded the page. The APL385 version looks like it's > supposed to - you can > see why we like the look of APL when you see it properly. > > Thanks for putting this up. > > Regards, > > Devon > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm > > > > Please let me know of any errors or problems, in particular > > problems with the APL characters. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
