The following is not directly relevant, but perhaps you may find some useful ideas there.
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Word_Formation_on_Lines ----- Original Message ----- From: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:48 Subject: [Jgeneral] run on sentences To: General forum <[email protected]> > J sentences are lines, except that some lines may contain multiple > sentences (for example, in explicit definitions). > > This is a very powerful formalism, when working interactively, > but can cause problems in some contexts. Email programs may > arbitrarily split lines which are "too long". And, when working > with long names, otherwise reasonable sentences might not fit on > a reasonable line. > > For example, consider trying to send an email message which > contains an opengl sentence which uses one opengl verb and > four opengl nouns > > > (\: #@>)nl_jgl3_ i.3 [ require'opengl' > GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY_POINTER_EXT > GL_COLOR_TABLE_INTENSITY_SIZE_EXT > GL_COLOR_TABLE_LUMINANCE_SIZE_EXT > GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY_STRIDE_EXT > GL_CURRENT_RASTER_POSITION_VALID > ... > > One solution for this conflict involves breaking up the sentence > into smaller sentences which can each fit on a single line and then > building up from there. However, this approach can obscure the > important operations by burying them in trivia. > > Another approach uses 0 :0 nouns > > icosa_inds=: ".-.&(;:LF)&.;:0 :0 > 0 4 1, 0 9 4, 9 5 4, 4 5 8, > 4 8 1, > 8 10 1, 8 3 10, 5 3 8, 5 2 3, 2 7 3, > 7 10 3, 7 6 10, 7 11 6, 11 0 6, 0 1 6, > 6 1 10, 9 0 11, 9 11 2, 9 2 5,: 7 2 11 > ) > > Hypothetically speaking, the key phrase here is > ". 0 : 0 > > However, ". and ;: treat line feeds as a token which is > invalid in sentences, so they must be removed before the > multi-line sentence can be used. > > I am wondering if one choice would be particularly good for the > long run, for people wanting to express coherent long sentences: > > [0] do not use run-on sentences. > > [1] use ".-.&(;:LF)&.;:0 :0 > > [2] define > runon=:1 :'u 1 :(-.&(;:LF)&.;:0 :0)' > [2a] in each email message and file that uses run-on sentences. > [2b] in some miscellaneous library. > [2c] in the z locale for some future version of J. > > [3] modify the dictionary, such that the line feed character > gets treated as a space by ;: (and, thus, modifying ".) > > [4] modify the dictionary, such that 10 :0 reads and evaluates > a run-on sentence. > > [5] something else? > > [Obviously, any changes in J would be useless, until deployed.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
