Firefox bug, eh?... I thought I'd installed all the necessary fonts. And checked the source html (but not the css yet) plus my browser's defaults.
Then I found I'm still running an obsolete Firefox (2.0.0.20) on my Mac (actually my daughter's machine), because of system upgrading issues too silly to go into. Sorry to waste everyone's time... :-/ Ian On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
