Re: [Jbeta] wee wide char problem

2012-05-31 Thread Raul Miller
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:

Re: [Jbeta] wee wide char problem

2012-05-31 Thread bill lam
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

Re: [Jbeta] wee wide char problem

2012-05-30 Thread 김창준
Hi David, As a J user with Korean language as a mother tongue, I have that pain, too. Currently I deal with it in two options: 1. HTML table : http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Boxed%20Array%20Display#HTMLoutput 2. using unicode character width data with fixed width fonts :

Re: [Jbeta] wee wide char problem

2012-05-29 Thread Eric Iverson
This is a known problem. It has haunted us for years. We love our unicode and we love our boxes but they are not completely happy. 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. A short while ago there