Re Latex -- I guess Vector could manage it nowadays, but not being the editor that's not my call. Adrian & Stephen are clever enough to accept any format flung at them... but working to deadlines, as they do, the decision was made not to encourage that, but to confine submissions to a very small choice of formats.
Why I (and Vector) use MSWord is not because it is good but because it is common. Re box corners -- yes I like the look of graphic ones too. But the original source material came in so many styles, heritage fonts and obsolete MSWord features that I regretfully decided to convert them all to Plus because that comes out looking like Plus in most migrations, including unanticipated ones. Once all the articles are laundered, it's a decision I might revisit. Chris Burke tells me: > For the J wiki, we prefer ascii box drawing characters, because some > browsers do not display unicode box drawing characters correctly. So let's please keep to Plusses in the Wiki articles for uniformity. Ian Clark On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Chris Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > A first question for you on the box drawing characters. > > For the J wiki, we prefer ascii box drawing characters, because some > browsers do not display unicode box drawing characters correctly. > > It should be possible to convert from ascii to unicode when reading the > pages, so you could in theory use unicode box drawing characters in the > book. But if you prefer not, that is fine. Let us know. > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Jchat] At Play With J (was initially @ [Jprogramming]) > Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:04:18 +0800 > From: bill lam <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Chat forum <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > References: <[email protected]> > >> ... Once this is complete, >> the BAA would use the wiki pages as source for the book. > > I downloaded the source as saw it uses ms word format. An author > wrote a letter to the vector editor to complain why only word format > was accept, but not latex format he submitted. But it happened many > years ago so that I might mis-remember. > > iirc early J publications in "education vector" use graphic box > characters instead of ascii ++-----|| . IMO for printed documents the > graphic box should enhance clarity especially for new comers. > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > 唐詩272 韋應物 滁州西澗 > 獨憐幽草澗邊生 上有黃鸝深樹鳴 春潮帶雨晚來急 野渡無人舟自橫 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
