I think lexical analysis (if I recall correctly form school days time) would help you with this. Which GTK terminal already does I think. This is independent of J Engine.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
