Bill, just wanted to thank you for making Tara available. I used to use OLE to write Excel files, but loading Excel was slow and so often resorted to writing .csv files instead, despite the lack of formatting. Tara is much more responsive.
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bill lam > Sherlock, Ric wrote: > > A) When writing a boxed text array, if some atoms are > > empty, it seems that those empty cells are actually written > > as one space. Is this intended? > It is intended. biff does not allow null string. A single > space is used as a workaround. This is a bit of a bummer but knowing means I can try and work around it. > > B) The wraptext property doesn't seem to have any effect. > Actually tara uses textwrap, I cannot remember this was kept > to be bug compatible with my old applications or not. sorry. Yes textwrap works thanks. > > C) How can I include non ASCII characters (eg. micron µ) in > > a format string? > biff use ucs2 not mbcs or utf8. eg format__xf=: ucp '0.0" µ"' Sorry, I'm not really up on font encodings, so that doesn't mean much to me but it works fine! > > D) Finally, am I right in saying that there is no way to > write a numeric array that contains empty atoms? Eg. > > num=: (<i.0) (<2;3)} <&>i.4 5 > > writenumber__bi 6 1;<num > Once again this is a biff peculiarity and tara is optimised for speed. No problem, just wanted to be sure. The speed is one of the reasons that I find Tara useful. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
