There was an example in my original message: http://www.vector.org.uk/archive/display.htm . Anyway, no worries, I am on my way to solving this particular problem by linking to http://web.archive.org/web/20101005220313/http://www.vector.org.uk/archive/display.htm instead.
Speaking of changing addresses, please note that my e-mail address has been changed to [email protected] . On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Stephen Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian > The new archive includes serverside redirects designed to prevent this: > links in the old form get HTTP “permanent redirects” to the new URLs. If > this has broken down – or is incomplete – we should be able to fix it in the > .htaccess file on the server – though the Apache URL rewrite rules are > justly described as “voodoo”. > Let’s let some examples of broken links to work on. > > Stephen > > On 3 November 2011 00:23, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I've been away and didn't see this... >> >> @Roger >> Thanks for alerting me to something I didn't know (and, as a member of >> the BAA committee and "Vector archivist" I ought to have done). >> >> Vector has migrated from its old server to a new site: >> http://sites.google.com/site/baavector/ >> and a lot of restructuring has been done. A side-effect of this is >> that **many** links from the J wiki to the Vector site have broken, >> certainly all those on pages I own, notably references from the J wiki >> version of "At Play With J" to the original papers in the Vector >> archive. A search of the J wiki for: "vector.org.uk" reveal 73 >> references, all of which, I fear will have to be checked and >> corrected. A task which falls to me. >> >> Broken Vector links have troubled me already this year and I propose >> we treat it as a recurring problem. I will discuss with Chris Burke >> and Stephen Taylor, the Vector editor, how best to handle it. My first >> idea is to funnel all j wiki references to "Vector" and "APL385 >> Unicode" through a single page (to be chosen), which a member of the >> BAA committee (eg myself) can undertake to keep up-to-date. >> >> Meanwhile the old "official" Vector link: http://vector.org.uk >> --successfully transfers you to: >> http://sites.google.com/site/baavector/ >> ...but unfortunately links of the form: http://vector.org.uk/xxxxx mostly >> break. >> >> The old Vector page which discusses fonts in general is now to be found >> at: >> http://sites.google.com/site/baavector/fonts >> >> I'll try to get all 73 jwiki links fixed in the next 10 days. >> >> @Chat >> The British APL Association recommends the non-proportional font >> "APL385 Unicode" (apl385.ttf), which it offers free of charge from its >> own website, and has standardized on this font for all its published >> code, especially if there's a need for APL chars, whether printed, web >> or operational. I personally use it for setting all J code as well, >> and for reading all code of any sort on the J wiki. "At Play With J" >> in particular uses APL385 Unicode for both APL and J code, because >> these are often mixed together in the book. >> >> If you encounter problems with using APL385 Unicode in practice, >> please get in touch with the BAA Committee (eg via me), because we'll >> want to know about it and fix it. This is the BAA doing its job. No >> single vendor can provide this service. >> >> You may well find that your favorite vendor's APL font works in place >> of APL385 Unicode, in the limited set of circumstances you've come >> across. But bear in mind there's a lot of water gone under this bridge >> since 1984, when Vector was first published, and a lot of experience >> with using APL385 Unicode in a vast range of circumstances, >> cross-medium, cross-APL and cross-platform. >> >> Now, does anyone want to tell me that, since J code is ASCII-only, all >> the world's problems ought to have gone away...? >> >> Ian Clark >> (as Vector Archivist, for the BAA Committee) >> >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > In many of the articles in http://www.jsoftware.papers I appended a note >> > at >> > the end: >> > >> > The text requires the APL385 Unicode font, which can be downloaded from >> > http://www.vector.org.uk/resource/apl385.ttf . To resolve (or at least >> > explain) problems with displaying APL characters see >> > http://www.vector.org.uk/archive/display.htm . >> > >> > Unfortunately, the last URL, >> > http://www.vector.org.uk/archive/display.htm, >> > seems to have disappeared from the Vector website. It has useful bits >> > of >> > advice, including potential problems with displaying APL in various >> > popular >> > browsers. Does anyone know where this page as gone to? (I have put in >> > a >> > query with the Vector editor but he does not seem to answer his 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
