You still have to define the rules. -- Raul
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Greg Borota <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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