Just curious, how glqtextmetrics can be useful to you?
On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 at 10:04 AM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually, thinking about this, there's a way of abusing the parser to
> express tacit definitions in a multiline format that's fairly
> readable. For this example:
>
> glqtextmetrics=: _{{
> m=. '"',libjqt,'" glqtextmetrics ',(IFWIN#'+'),' i *i'
> u=. m&cd@(<7#00)
> (1&{:: [ chkgl2)@u"1
> }}
>
> This is kind of a one-off approach, though, and when putting together
> a library like gl2 it might be better to encapsulate some of this for
> reuse.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> --
> Raul
>
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 8:57 PM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Sure, and it's tempting to go tacit (though this will probably line
> > wrap in email, despite my attempts to remove unneeded spaces):
> >
> > glqtextmetrics=: (1&{::[chkgl2)@(('"',libjqt,'" glqtextmetrics
> > ',(IFWIN#'+'),' i *i')&cd@(<7#00))"1
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Raul
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 6:05 PM Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > If you're going to use {{ }} you might as well use 7#00 instead of 2-2
> .
> > >
> > > Henry Rich
> > >
> > > On 11/19/2021 3:51 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > And, unless you're trying to do something similar to what I am trying
> > > > to do, you might not have much use for text metrics.
> > > >
> > > > Setting up test cases and running example code is an easy area to
> > > > neglect. (I know I have often neglected this realm.)
> > > >
> > > > Anyways, I am going to use
> > > >
> > > > glqtextmetrics=: {{
> > > > tm=. 7#2-2
> > > > chkgl2 cdrc=. ('"',libjqt,'" glqtextmetrics ',(IFWIN#'+'),' i
> *i') cd <tm
> > > > 1{::cdrc
> > > > }}"1
> > > >
> > > > until the gl2 package gets updated.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks again,
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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