Season's Greetings. Thanks to everyone who tried the J Viewer, and particularly to those who submitted bug reports and feature requests. I believe I've addressed all of the former and I'm working my way through the latter. Highlights: The past month saw many minor bug fixes and performance enhancements, including faster searches when there is a large number of results (as for +/) or when only one source is selected. Note that no matter how many results are found, only 200 are returned. Nearly 6,000 of Skip Cave's Quora posts, which contain brief J programs suitable for beginners, are now part of the full-text/code search facility. Clarification: there is an initial data download (~350 MB) after installation during which the viewer is unresponsive. Please be patient. (Subsequent downloads happen in the background.) The new "Show Bookmarks" checkbox (just above the TOC) lets you display your bookmarks in the main table of contents, improving readiness-to-hand. Roughly 1,000 RosettaCode J Solutions have been indexed. Navigation buttons above the browser let you jump instantly between RosettaCode search results' problem statements and their corresponding J solutions. Over 100 J YouTube videos' titles, descriptions and (where available) transcripts have been indexed. Note that the J Viewer can't play some videos (for reasons still mysterious). You may have to press the "Browser" button (upper right) to launch the video in your default browser. For those keeping score, the viewer's corpora now include the Wiki, the Forums, Quora, RosettaCode, GitHub and YouTube. The time slider has been dropped from the search facility—it worked only for Forum posts and the feedback was that people tended to maximize it anyway, so…there are better uses for that real estate. By popular demand (well, okay, Raul, mainly), search results can now be scrolled with two fingers (trackpad) or the mouse wheel as well as with the page number buttons. The original J Vocabulary is now easily available from the table of contents, immediately below *NuVoc's ancillary pages. (Though in some ways superseded by NuVoc, many seasoned J developers still appreciate the Vocabulary's formality and concision.) Favorite quotes: "Wow [the viewer's] working now and it looks excellent! No sleep for me tonight!" "I had no idea there was so much material [on J]." "Still loving the J viewer - More rabbit holes than Watership Down!”
If you haven't tried the J Viewer, I invite you to do so. Installation is easy; see https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/J_Viewer J Viewer Demo: https://youtu.be/SLJS84u4eVc Thanks very much. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
