The first thing to do, I think, would be to identify which character sequences get replaced (and when and where).
For example, does $ (without a trailing . or :) get replaced with a rho? And, if so, is this universal (even in literal contexts?) Thanks, -- Raul On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Greg Borota <[email protected]> wrote: > What I have in mind is just a display thing. Say you Select All and > Copy/Paste the content of the editor window, you still get ASCII chars only. > > E.g: In GTK Term whenever you enter y as the verb argument it changes color > and becomes italic (at least under Windows). What if you were to display > the omega character instead? But behind the scenes you still hold y ASCII > char indeed. Maybe those who already worked on GTK editor could add their > feedback. > > And this could be an optional setting which one could turn on and off as > wanted. Just a display setting. > > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm not sure this is really such a good idea. J is its own language and >> mapping some J symbols to APL ones could be misleading. Also, as much as I >> like the look of APL, I'm happy not to deal with the continuing hiccups >> caused by the character set. >> >> At last year's APL Moot, I showed my fellow mooters that I could cut and >> paste Chinese characters into an emacs session with no apparent problem but >> some of the APL characters from a website did not come over cleanly. >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Greg Borota <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I think it might be a quicker path to use ASCII behind the scenes still >> but >> > have some editor/term software (Visual Studio in this case) display words >> > of interest as APL symbols. Like in MS Word where you type (c) and it's >> > automatically displayed as Copyright Symbol ©. >> > >> > This could even be an Options settings where one could turn it on and >> off. >> > I think this is doable with reasonable effort with Visual Studio, but I >> am >> > thinking the idea could be used with Qt or GKT also. Unless I am missing >> > something which I might see only after starting the actual implementation >> > :-) >> > >> > I am very new to APL land, but I really liked the APL symbols. When I >> first >> > started with computers I was puzzled why math symbols were not used by C >> (C >> > was my first higher level language after Assembly)... >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:41 PM, PMA <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > > What a wonderful idea! I wish I had >> > > the competence & time to pursue it. >> > > >> > > Pete >> > > >> > > >> > > J. Patrick Harrington wrote: >> > > >> > >> ... My dream would be to have J expressible in APL-like >> > >> >> > >> characters (there isn't a one-to-one correspondance, though most >> symbols >> > >> could be carried over). Then J could have two >> > >> forms, like hieroglyphic and demotic Egyptian: ASCII J for use >> > >> in emails & everywhere, and APL-like J for use on your main >> > >> machine: more compact and beautiful to look at. I really hope >> > >> that such a project gets under way. >> > >> >> > > >> > >> ------------------------------**------------------------------**---------- >> > > For information about J forums see >> http://www.jsoftware.com/**forums.htm >> > <http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm> >> > > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Devon McCormick, CFA >> ^me^ at acm. >> org is my >> preferred e-mail >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
