Again, many thanks for the help. I have installed tw. It looks like a good editor packed with features. I don't think it matters what colours to use in the syntax highlighting - anything is better than no highlighting - but why not use the same colours that come up on Jconsole in Windows?
The 'keystyle fat' option solved the problem with the colours in the key. Thanks, Matthew. On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Joey K Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill, > > Good question. It works nicely from jconsole (which is my normal working > environment - and I assumed Matthew's as well since he also asked about > colorizing editors...) But, on my iMac the jIDE uses very thin black lines > in the key, while jconsole and resulting PDF provides thicker key lines in > correct colors. By the way, the displayed results from the PDF are generally > much prettier than the IDE (Java I suppose) provided rendering - things like > Devon's pet example: > > 'surface' plot +/~ 1 o. i: 6j99 > > really show the difference! Especially if you zoom in. > > Matthew, > > On the question about syntax highlighting editors you got a response from > Bill suggesting emacs as a choice. I normally use TextWrangler, a very nice > and powerful editor that is free from > http://bbedit.com/products/textwrangler/ > > From time to time I think I will put together a syntax module for J in > TextWrangler, but so far the interest level hasn't stayed high enough to > work on what it should look like. Maybe if I took the emacs coloring as a > design I would get past square one... While I really do prefer using > terminal with jconsole, having syntax color isn't a big thing for me. I DO > wish there was a way to run the labs etc. from jconsole.... > > - joey > > > At 00:16 +0800 2008/11/01, bill lam wrote: >> >> Did you run under jconsole with the latest base library or java-frontend? >> >> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Matthew Brand wrote: >> >>> Does anyone else have the problem that on a Mac (leopard) the commands, >>> >>> load 'plot' >>> 'key A B' plot (i.10),:(4*i.10) >>> >>> uses black as the colour in the key for both lines? The two lines in >>> the plot are blue and red. >>> >>> Thanks, >> >> > Matthew. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
