How about using Emacs Org Mode? jorgtest1.* is your Z example.
jorgtest2.* doesn't work so well on a boxed array. If anyone knows the secret, please share! Bill On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 7:45 PM Fraser Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for your comments Bob. > > If you use > Z =. ?. 4 5 $ 200 as a test array, Copying a display of z to Word leads > to an array which is like a ;ist of four vectors. The columns are no > longer aligned. You can do better with using the display of <”0 z after > having chosen to toggle ascii box characters in the view menu, but it still > does not give clean box shapes by default even with a monospaced font like > Courier New. For latex inserting the J session selection within a > verbatim section often gives a satisfactory output but not always.. > > Script sections for programs do provide accurate detail in Word even with > some loss of formatting. For Latex you need to use the verbatim control to > avoid a range of problems. > > It is relatively simple to write a program to format the data in an array > for latex. If there is a box for each item in the array, both numeric and > character items can be entered in the Latex table and the formatting rules > of Latex used to format the table and generate all lines required. We need > to add some tidy capabilities to our packages to make it easy to transfer > results to whatever document forms are required. They are essential if we > want to see wider use of J. > > Fraser > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > From: 'robert therriault' via General > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:45 PM > To: General forum > Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Transferring J output to other documents > > Hi Fraser, > > For Word Documents I was able to just select the code on either the jQT or > JHS interfaces and then use Edit|Paste Special... in the Word document. I > use html format as my choice, but there are times that the unformatted > provides a cleaner look. For boxed information I think that you will want > to use html to retain spacing and linefeeds. I would guess that Latex has > something similar, although I am not a user of it. > > If I have misread what it is that you are attempting, my apologies for the > noise. > > Cheers, bob > > > On Apr 20, 2020, at 16:48, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Not really but does print to pdf printer work? > > > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 7:28 AM Fraser Jackson <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Does anyone have a simple way of copying formatted J session output > >> to a Word or Latex document > >> . > >> It needs to preserve Ascii formatted boxes as well, but a means of also > >> transferring an item using line drawing characters would be very usefuf. > >> > >> Any suggestions would be most helpful. > >> > >> For Latex I have some simple functions for constructing a latex input > for > >> tables for numeric cases, but intend to develop functions to create > latex > >> input to display a boxed table for a wider range of simple cases. > >> > >> Fraser > >> > >> Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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 > -- Bill Harris http://makingsense.facilitatedsystems.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
