I believe that "The Design of J", if it had been written, would have frowned on such font tricks, having learned from the bitter experience with the special characters in APL.
----- Original Message ----- From: Yuvaraj Athur Raghuvir <[email protected]> Date: Friday, May 29, 2009 20:55 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Italic Fonts? To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > 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
