I haven't tried it personally, but this looks like it could be a good start: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/18600/expandable-nested-boxes-with-tikz which refers to: https://tikz.dev/library-shapes#sec-71.6
Otherwise, if he prefers manually making drawings for use in LaTeX, I have had very good experience with XFig. The interface looks like coming from the stone-age, but it does a good job, and exports to LaTeX-compatible files. I also remember using IPE for LaTeX grapics at a certain point: https://ipe.otfried.org/ Good luck! Jan-Pieter On Wed, 13 Jul 2022, 20:27 Henry Rich, <[email protected]> wrote: > Viktor Grigorov is working on a new J Reference card, with a little > advice from me. He is using LaTeX. We would like to create displays of > boxed nouns that look like what J produces: > > < 2;<1 2 > +-------+ > |+-+---+| > ||2|1 2|| > |+-+---+| > +-------+ > 2 ; <<1 2 NB. display fudged to center the first box vertically > +-+-----+ > | |+---+| > |2||1 2|| > | |+---+| > +-+-----+ > a:,<1 2 > ++---+ > ||1 2| > ++---+ > > The display should use solid lines for the borders, not + - and |. > > We are having trouble lining up the boxes just right. Can someone post > LaTeX snippets to format those properly? > > Henry Rich > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
