Hi Don, I'm easy about indents. Some revisers have been ignoring them. The J Wiki has its own house rules, I imagine, and I won't second-guess these. Primarily I'm looking for updated J code.
Indents were usually the typesetter's decision, applying BAA Vector house rules. I shall (usually) retain the indentation I used in Edn 1. There is no detectable consistency in the formatting of the original articles, either by author or typesetter, not even in the fonts used for code. I have introduced a few principles, which I apply flexibly. If you think the author has made a factual mistake, or there's been a typo, or what he says has been invalidated by your revision, please add a footnote to that effect, rather than simply altering the narrative. It alerts me to the fact, and I want to defer any such decision, maybe take advice, or apply some policy throughout the book. In the case you mention, I too count 16 J tokens and wondered if Gene was counting quotes and parentheses also. But earlier in the article, just after the code for h and pyr, he takes account of the 4 tokens used to define the funtion: h. I'm copying my reply to Chat (I hope you don't mind) because I think it's of general interest, and to document the revision exercise. Ian Clark Subeditor, APWJ On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: > I have just completed editing #41 and have a couple of questions. > A section needs to be indented. How do I do indent in WIKI? > At the end he says he as reduced the number of tokens from a bunch to 20. I > count 16. Should I say something like less than 20 or correct the number. > I have not moved it to the WIKI page yet. I want to review it a little more > thoroughly and find out what I should do about these two questions. > If you want to see it it is at http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/DonGuinn/test > Thank you, > Don Guinn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
