@Joe - You're very welcome. It's feedback from newcomers c/f yourself that provides the impetus to persist with something on this scale. Us oldies can begin to stop seeing the need for it.
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Joe Bogner <joebog...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Ian and others! I have been using NuVoc on a near daily > basis since I first found out about it a few months back. I often > either start or end up at the current J Dictionary. Having NuVoc has > been incredibly helpful with additional examples and having similar > things said different ways as Voc. > > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you everyone for your help in finishing this (and other) pages: > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/hcapdot > > > > This completes NuVoc, the "Accessible Dictionary" the J community started > > over 2 years ago. Though I've no doubt individual pages can be improved. > > Comments about this are invited from newcomers to J. > > > > The current J Dictionary ("Voc") > > http://jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/vocabul.htm > > is a praiseworthy piece of work. It is concise, precise and consistent, > > employing a terminology (nouns, verbs, lists, etc) that is the tersest > and > > least cluttered I've met in any discipline. But J newcomers tend to find > it > > rather dry. > > > > NuVoc does not seek to replace it: only to offer a less demanding > > alternative to Voc for J learners seeking reference material indexed by J > > primitive. Each NuVoc page has a prominent pointer to Voc. This has > > simplified the treatment, since it is assumed readers will progress to > the > > Voc page once they have grasped the essentials from NuVoc. > > > > The point-of-access is: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NuVoc > > to which http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary now redirects. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
