Package manager will often have descriptions of every addon it knows about.
There could be a wikipage that lists them all along with any links to usage help pages, and perhaps links to addons/packages that are not part of the distribution. ----- Original Message ----- From: Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 11:38:31 AM Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Announcement: Graphical sentence debugger for J Apparently my question and its purpose was misunderstood. I was not asking what the load statement should be, since as I indicated I was able to find dissect.ijs by using an OS X search. Rather, my question was how to find dissect from within the running J system, e.g., from jqt. And the purpose was to suggest that this is just the sort of lack of documentation that makes J unnecessarily hard to use -- except perhaps for the insiders who develop it. Moreover, how is it recommended that one learns about the existence of "dissect" from within the J system (i.e., not having to rely upon the mailing list)? On 6 Aug 2014 14:06:22 -0700, "'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming" <[email protected]> wrote: > load 'debug/dissect' > > will work from console and files. ?I think similar statements work for all > items under /addons > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 4:22:01 PM > Subject: [Jprogramming] Announcement: Graphical sentence debugger for J > > Now just how do you recommend that one determine what file to load in order > to have access to dissect? > > In jqt, unfortunately, the dialog one gets from menu selection Edit > Find in > Files does not allow the choice of Addons, just Demos, Projects, and User. > > And there seems to be no reasonable way to do a search for 'dissect' when one > uses the built-in Help menu. > > And the jwiki page http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/Dissect doesn't > tell how to load it, either. > > Of course I can use (under OS X) the Terminal command "mdfind -name > dissect.ijs", but why does it have to be so hard to accomplish such a basic > and essential thing from within J (without shelling out)?? > > > On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:49:36 -0400, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The /Dissect/ addon lets you probe a J sentence, even one that contains >> complex tacit forms.? It has a colorful but informative display using >> gl2 graphics.? It is described at >> >> www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/Dissect >> >> I think it could answer a lot of the language questions posed here. —— Murray Eisenberg [email protected] Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 240 246-7240 (H) University of Massachusetts 710 North Pleasant Street Amherst, MA 01003-9305 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
