Yes, that works. 1) when choosing the font from the font chooser, the resultant string is: "Courier New" 9 italic 2) Just moving the italic word inside the quotes works! "Courier New italic" 9
Looks like this is a small correction is required when the string is set on the edit field. Now, I have the next issue : to be in sync with the APL proposal, I guess I need - Letters to be italic - Digits to be regular - Graphics to be regular The current proposal makes all characters italic. Is it possible to set the fonts for all characters in J that are inline with what I read in 'The Design of APL'? Regards, Yuva On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > 'italic', not 'italics' > > I just set my font to > > "Courier New italic" 8 > > successfully. > > Henry Rich > > Yuvaraj Athur Raghuvir wrote: > > Hello, > > > > When reading through 'The Design of APL' I came across this: > > " Italics were initially favored because of their common use for denoting > > variables in mathematics, but were finally chosen primarily because they > > distinguished the letter *O* from the digit 0 and letters like *L*, > > and *T *from the graphic symbols (paste does not work for the symbols)" > > > > So, I thought that was a cool idea and wanted to set the fonts on my J > to > > italics. > > > > But this does not work!! Any clues? > > > > 'Bold' works but not 'italics'. > > > > I am running J602a on Windows XP 32. > > > > Regards, > > Yuva > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
