It is true that the Wiki page names will mostly not typically be used by the reader. However, I think that it would still be nice to have the page names have the following characteristics:
1) The page name should use common English names that obviously tie to the symbols on the associated page. An English-speaking person should be able to easily determine the referenced symbol from it's ASCII page name. Most people should be able to pick the symbol out of a list of all of the J symbols, given its' ASCII page name. This eliminates names such as "circum", "circumflex", or "asciicircum" for "hat" (who knew?). 2) The names should be as short as possible without loosing their semantic content. That makes "star" better than "asterisk" (shorter), number for numbersign, amp for ampersand, quotsing for quotesingle , dot for period, under for underscore, and tilde for asciitilde I know that "star" means something different in the APL character set, but we are only concerned with pure ASCII here, and the general English-speaking audience. There is no reason to tie this naming scheme to any other "standard". IMHO, it is more important to have an easy connection between the page name and the symbol that any English speaker can grasp, than following some standard. A secondary goal would be the brevity of the ASCII name. . Ian has posted my proposal on his PageNames page: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/FormalPageNames Thanks Ian.. By the way, I couldn't get your charname.ijs working. I kept getting an error on the undefined verb "cmx" in the script. Skip Cave . . . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
