Ah, good old APL character hiccups - thought I'd seen the last of them but now I realize I never will.
We had a discussion about this when Roger helped me out by putting up the wiki page for Iverson's original Turing Award paper ( http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm ) so I could reference it from the page on which I'm working ( http://www.sigapl.org/KenIverson/KenIversonTuringAwardACMWebPage.html ) for the ACM pages on Turing Award winners. On Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you following the advice in fine print at the bottom of > the text? Specifically, did you install the APL385 Unicode font? > If you have, and are still getting the images shown > in your link, please read > http://www.vector.org.uk/archive/display.htm > On MacOS X, Vector recommends Safari 1.2 or higher, > I guess due to: > Firefox on MacOS X > Firefox on MacOS X has an error that masks > out most APL symbols. This error did not occur when tested > in April 2007 against the development group’s ‘nightly build’, > so we expect it to disappear in due course. > Until then Firefox on MacOS X is not suitable for reading Vector. On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: > I converted that article and was worried about those APL characters as I > worked on it. When I first viewed it the APL characters looked fine on my > browser and when I pulled it into the WIKI editor. But I knew that my > seeing > them correctly did not mean that they were correct for all viewers. After > trying to see what was really being sent to my browser and not having much > luck I decided that there was not a thing I could do about it. > It's good to know that the APL seems to display correctly, for most people > anyway. How does WIKI handle APL characters? I never explicitly did > anything > to get my browser set up for them. So where did they come from? > > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Sherlock, Ric <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > The J Wiki specifies the following fonts for code blocks and <tt> tagged > > stuff. > > > > pre, tt, textarea { > > font-family:APL385 Unicode,monospace; > > } > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On > > > Behalf Of Ian Clark > > > Sent: Saturday, 23 May 2009 19:09 > > > To: Chat forum > > > Subject: Re: [Jchat] APL chars in J Wiki pages > > > > > > Thanks -- just tried it under Windows -- and I can see all the APL > chars > > > now. > > > > > > So I must be missing a font on my Mac, which is defaulting to > > > something without the full APL char set. > > > > > > Does anyone happen to know the code font(s) the J Wiki uses? > > > > > > Ian > > > > > > > > > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Sherlock, Ric > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Yes that displays fine for me too. > > > > > > > >> From: Ian Clark > > > >> > > > >> Sorry, that was a bad example. There are (munged) APL chars in first > > > >> block of code, but no quads. > > > >> > > > >> But can you see all the APL chars correctly? > > > >> > > > >> An example with quads as-such is: > > > >> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Articles/Play194 > > > >> ...big block of code near bottom, has line: > > > >> ∇ r←Esme cards;sv;ta;tb;tc;td;pc;cd;diff;dc;⎕IO;⎕ML > > > >> ...that line should finish with {quad}IO;{quad}ML > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
