P.S.  Here is an improvement in verb lebd .

    y
 +-------+-------------+
 |+-----+|+---+-------+|
 ||2 3 4|||5 6|+-----+||
 |+-----+||   ||0 1 2|||
 |       ||   ||3 4 5|||
 |       ||   |+-----+||
 |       |+---+-------+|
 +-------+-------------+
    lebd y
  ------ 
      -  
      2  
         
      3  
         
      4  
      -  
  ------ 
   ----  
      5  
         
      6  
   ----  
    --   
    30   
         
    41   
         
    52   
    --   
   ----  
  ------ 


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On Feb 9, 2013, at 11:06 AM, km <[email protected]> wrote:

> As my iPad doesn't permit sending emails in a fixed font and a big problem is 
> that spaces and numerals don't have the same width, I have devised a boxed 
> display to be read from the left edge of the page.  It shows the vertical 
> edges of boxes, uses spaces for the corners, and leaves the horizontal edges 
> to your imagination.
> 
> You are invited to comment or improve and to supply the explicit verb  lebd  
> (left edge boxed display) which assumes a boxed right argument.
> 
>    ]y=: (<<2 3 4),<(5 6 ; <<i. 2 3)  NB. borrowed from L.
> vocabulary entry
> +-------+-------------+
> |+-----+|+---+-------+|
> ||2 3 4|||5 6|+-----+||
> |+-----+||   ||0 1 2|||
> |       ||   ||3 4 5|||
> |       ||   |+-----+||
> |       |+---+-------+|
> +-------+-------------+
>    lebd y  NB. left edge boxed display
>  ────── 
>      ─  
>      2  
> 
>      3  
> 
>      4  
>      ─  
>  ────── 
>   ────  
>      5  
> 
>      6  
>   ────  
>    ──   
>    30   
> 
>    41   
> 
>    52   
>    ──   
>   ────  
>  ────── 
> 
>    y
> +-------+-------------+
> |+-----+|+---+-------+|
> ||2 3 4|||5 6|+-----+||
> |+-----+||   ||0 1 2|||
> |       ||   ||3 4 5|||
> |       ||   |+-----+||
> |       |+---+-------+|
> +-------+-------------+
> 
> Kip Murray
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
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