This is not the case for ascii, either. Consider the tab character as an example.
-- Raul On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:59 PM, bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com> wrote: > For unicode strings, the width of a word is not the sum of its > individual glyphs. Its height is not the maximum over its > individual glyph either. So that I doubt if that can be done in pure J. > > Чтв, 31 Май 2012, Raul Miller писал(а): >> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Eric Iverson <eric.b.iver...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > The long standing proposal is that someone model the desired behavior in J >> > and then we'll look at incorpporating it in the primitive format. >> >> >> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:36 PM, June Kim (김창준) <junea...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > 1. HTML table : >> > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Boxed%20Array%20Display#HTMLoutput >> > >> > 2. using unicode character width data with fixed width fonts : >> > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/JuneKim (see the box.ijs and >> > unicodedata.ijs) >> >> So that's two implementations, though the first is only useful in >> certain contexts. >> >> But perhaps the second approach is a viable model? >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Raul >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
