I just noticed something strange in the display of symbols that include the tab
character in their label. They are not consistently displayed depending on
where they show up in a string of symbols. Is this something that will be
cleaned up or is there a rule that will let me reliable predict how the symbols
will display? Currently, the display of a symbol seems to depend on the
preceding symbol in the string.
JVERSION
Engine: j806/j64/darwin
Beta-1: commercial/2017-03-09T12:01:12
Library: 8.06.01
Qt IDE: 1.5.3/5.6.2
Platform: Darwin 64
Installer: J806 install
InstallPath: /users/bobtherriault/j64-806
Contact: www.jsoftware.com
NB. using unifont as fixed width font in the session, hoping that email does
not mangle the spacing of the displays too much.
a=. s: <67 9 67{a.
b=.s: <68 68 68{ a.
a,b NB. 'a' is displayed full width
`C C `DDD
b,a
`DDD `C C
a,a NB. second occurrence of 'a' is displayed shorter than the first
`C C `C C
b,a,a NB. first occurrence of 'a' has tab as single space, second is
shortened
`DDD `C C `C C
a,b,a,a NB. three different displays of the same symbol within one string
of symbols,
`C C `DDD `C C `C C
a = a,b,a,a
1 0 1 1
The simple solution would be to treat all the special character as they are
when the symbol array is boxed which is to have them just display as single
spaces.
<a,b
┌─────────┐
│`C C `DDD│
└─────────┘
<b,a
┌─────────┐
│`DDD `C C│
└─────────┘
<b,a,a
┌──────────────┐
│`DDD `C C `C C│
└──────────────┘
<a,b,a,a
┌───────────────────┐
│`C C `DDD `C C `C C│
└───────────────────┘
Cheers, bob
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