On 01/22/14 11:36, Brian Schott wrote:
Peter,
I like your idea a lot.
Going even further, but with tongue well in cheek -- but not trying to
undermine your idea, how about putting y arguments beside monadic verbs, x
and y arguments around dyadic verbs, u or m arguments beside adverbs, and u
or m and v or n arguments around conjunctions. I wonder if this might
actually work on the backup nuVoc page?
Btw, it is not clear whether you meant your idea to be only on the backup
nuVoc page, or on the primary nuVoc page, but I assume you meant the
former. Yes/no?
I meant on the page where you show the ranks. E.g.,
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NuVocWithRank rather than
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NuVoc. As a newbie, I might start with the
undecorated page, but as I advance to where I understand (or am confused by :-)
ranks, I can just change my bookmark for the new J dictionary to point at the
one with the ranks. (Don't do one or the other: make variants available and
let user choose. Then monitor the http server logs and ....)
One of the things I really like about the old J dictionary is that the page titles have the symbolic and English forms of the terms: e.g., "<title>-:
Halve - Match</title>", so that when I have dozens of tabs open on the dictionary I can use those to choose a page using the tab-choosing mechanism in
my browser. The NuVoc pages have, e.g., "<title>Vocabulary/minusco - J Wiki</title>" which means I have to learn to read yet another set of
abbreviations. "minusco" doesn't help me either when I'm writing code and trying to find "what's the symbol for the verb that Halves", or when
I'm reading code and trying to find "what does -: mean". (And when I have lots of tabs open, the titles are shortened to "Vocabulary ...",
which doesn't help at all.)
... peter
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Peter B. Kessler <
peter.b.kess...@oracle.com> wrote:
Would it make sense to put the ranks in place of the operands? Monads with
one rank on the right and dyads with one rank on the left and one on the
right? E.g., the line for Negate and friends would be
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