Joey - I put up a page as part of a FAQ on issues of notation that I'm working on: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NYCJUG/APLNotationExamples
It includes samples from the DoA. On 3/11/07, Joey K Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, exactly. <rho>p has a "distinctive look" too... At 18:37 -0500 2007/03/11, Devon McCormick wrote: >Does this mean that alpha and omega appear to float a little above the >baseline >when inserted into a line of plain (e.g. Times Roman) text? If so, that's >what the >DoA looks like. > >On 3/11/07, Joey K Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>... >>I say "I believe" above, because I'm relying on memory >>since I don't have subscription access to the DoA >>on the ACM site. A sure sign that it was my font is >>the vertical placement of the Greek letters - I had >>them on the "function center" so that expressions like >><alpha> + <omega> aligned vertically. This was always >>a controversial choice, and perhaps even more argued >>was my choice of italic (rather than slanted) lower >>case alphabetics... Certainly my font was the one used >>in Eugene McDonnell's "Life: Nasty, Brutish, and Short". >>... >>All of this discussion, and the folks (e.g. Roger and >>Devon) who wince at the difficulty of displaying old >>papers are the things Ken thought a lot about when he >>made the tough decision to leave the lovely APL symbols >>behind. Practicality over esthetics... >> >>- joey >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
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