Except, of course, if we use utf-8, they're still multiple "characters" (though, granted, they are single code points and J also supports utf-16).
Thanks, -- Raul On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Tracy Harms <[email protected]> wrote: > Making the dots bigger might help a lot. Here's an idea that might be > relatively simple: have a J tokenizer active during typing, and every > inflected graphic primary gets changed so that the dots are both enlarged > and overlaid on the graphic. By "overlaid" I mean the result is a single > character with an appearance of the graphic and its (enlarged) inflections > squished together. > > This would require new fonts, but they're simple and each new character > correlates visually with normal J. It would let us retain the original J > character combinations yet work visually with single-character words as we > do in APL. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
