You could do something like this:
9!:7(_11{.'| ')
<every i.3 3
|0|1|2|
|3|4|5|
|6|7|8|
Thanks,
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Raul
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 11:10 AM Skip Cave <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> When working in JQT with some of the non-standard-width characters in a.,
> the boxing formatting is incorrect.
> Here's a link to a screenshot (.png) of my code in JQT attempting to create
> all the 13 playing cards in 4 suits. https://bit.ly/2BD6LEQ
>
>
> As you can see, the horizontal boxing characters are incorrect, and don't
> adjust for the wider characters, even though I'm using a fixed-width font.
>
> In the second part of the example, I randomly deal 4 hands from the deck
> labeled 'all'.
>
> At this point, we have 4 hands of 13 cards, but there are random spaces
> scattered in the boxed cards.
>
> Something went wrong, adding spaces after the random deal.
>
> In the third part, I remove all the horizontal boxing, making the display
> look much neater, but the extra spaces are even more visible.
>
>
> Two issues:
>
> 1. Something is inserting random spaces when randomly selecting boxed items.
>
> 2. It would be nice to have the boxing auto-adjust for variable width
> characters. If that isn't possible, it would be useful to have a boxing
> format option to remove horizontal boxing & corner characters for
> environments that don't have fixed-with fonts, that use non-standard-width
> characters, or that force double-spaced lines (Quora). After posting J
> problems and solutions in various venues, it turns out that the vertical
> bar (│) without horizontal bars or corners, is quite enough to clearly
> delineate separate items in most cases.
>
>
>
> Skip Cave
> Cave Consulting LLC
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