You can easily create what you want by creating a form.You put buttons with the captions showing whatever characters you want. In the code run when the button is pressed you can do what you want. By using Unicode you can produce APL chars or whatever.
2009/3/12 Don Watson <[email protected]> > Raul > > The non-ASCII characters were a bit of a mess. This was a first attempt at > something and I am not used to creating such script. I hand wrote the > non-ASCII characters onto the printed page and scanned the result into a > PDF > file. > > J programs would still be transferable, because there is no change to > storage format - the two ASCII characters are still stored. The change is > only when those characters are output. > > Don > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Raul Miller" <[email protected]> > To: "General forum" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:20 AM > Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] J with APL > > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Don Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://bcompanion.com/Compromisepdf.pdf > > Is there a reason you put this in a pdf ? I ask, because I recently > uninstalled adobe's reader because of a security flaw. > > http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-01.html > > I am installing the new version of adobe now, but if you needed > to use pdf because regular text was inadequate for your proposal, > I think that says something about the proposal itself -- it would > mean -- for example -- that you are proposing that J programs should > not be transmittable using regular email. > > ... > > Ok, I have downloaded the proposal now. The hard part, obviously, > is the characters themselves. (Personally, I could read the > J code but had problems understanding the "compromise > equivalent verb". I am not sure if my problems were because > of the ways the intended characters were rendered or whether > my problems in understanding were because I was expected to > understand some character(s) which I did not understand.) > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fugl&Fiskur ehf, Þerneyjarsundi 23, Hraunborgum Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 Landslags og skrúðgarðagerð, gröfuþjónusta http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
