One thing that has occurred to me is that in the early J Phrases document, they referred to certain nouns as "specimens" and maybe your nouns could build on that framework. Now that I am reminded that zulu is a phonetic name, it does not seem so bad, but until I perused your work, my only association with zulu was the international date line.
I have attempted below to suggest a brief introduction to this addon. Perhaps you could consider some of its ideas? Because strings vary, sometimes dramatically, in their length, it can be challenging to arrange and delimit them in the array structures native to J. Some common strategies for managing strings include putting each string in a J box, or separating strings with common delimiters such as whitespace and linefeeds. Another format, called "open" here, is to pad the end of each string with space characters to force all strings to be the same length and place each padded strings on its separate row of an "open" J array. This addon utility provides verbs for understanding these various formats and for better converting between such formats. The addon defines several categories of specimen nouns, especially the phonetically defined alphabets called "zulu" here. By the way, the name "open" is derived from the J result of opening an array of boxes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
