Thanks Hauke for your reply. That helped me see how to proceed. I mentioned that it would still be nice to have a simple way to remove the horizontal and corner box characters for times when presenting J in venues where fixed-width or unicode fonts are not available.
Here's what i mean: m=.'abc';'rtyuio';'b';'asdf';'wdrtybji';'ee';'nuko';'n' Not this: m ┌───┬──────┬─┬────┬────────┬──┬────┬─┐ │abc│rtyuio│b│asdf│wdrtybji│ee│nuko│n│ └───┴──────┴─┴────┴────────┴──┴────┴─┘ But this: m │abc│rtyuio│b│asdf│wdrtybji│ee│nuko│n│ Not this: 2 4$m ┌────────┬──────┬────┬────┐ │abc │rtyuio│b │asdf│ ├────────┼──────┼────┼────┤ │wdrtybji│ee │nuko│n │ └────────┴──────┴────┴────┘ But this: 2 4$m │abc│rtyuio│b│asdf│ │wdrtybji│ee│nuko│n│ As a format option. Skip Cave Cave Consulting LLC On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 12:44 PM Hauke Rehr <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Skip, > > this is how I would try to achieve what you’re after > > ] suits =: u: 9824 9827 9829 9830 > ♠♣♥♦ > ;/ values =: (3 2 $ ' J Q K') , ": >: i. 10 1 > ┌──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┐ > │ J│ Q│ K│ 1│ 2│ 3│ 4│ 5│ 6│ 7│ 8│ 9│10│ > └──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┘ > deck =: ,/ values ,"1/ ":"0 suits > _4 <\ deck > ┌───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐ > │ J♠│ Q♠│ K♠│ 1♠│ 2♠│ 3♠│ 4♠│ 5♠│ 6♠│ 7♠│ 8♠│ 9♠│10♠│ > │ J♣│ Q♣│ K♣│ 1♣│ 2♣│ 3♣│ 4♣│ 5♣│ 6♣│ 7♣│ 8♣│ 9♣│10♣│ > │ J♥│ Q♥│ K♥│ 1♥│ 2♥│ 3♥│ 4♥│ 5♥│ 6♥│ 7♥│ 8♥│ 9♥│10♥│ > │ J♦│ Q♦│ K♦│ 1♦│ 2♦│ 3♦│ 4♦│ 5♦│ 6♦│ 7♦│ 8♦│ 9♦│10♦│ > └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘ > > deck is pretty much your all in > 4 13$(52?52){all > As long as you don’t do any boxing, you won’t > need to get rid of boxing characters. > You can always insert | characters manually, though. > If you feel like they make the dealt hands more readable. > > Am 07.07.20 um 18:45 schrieb Skip Cave: > > The four suit symbols I was using were from a. 3 4 5 6{a. > > > > These symbols are not the same width as the character symbols in a. so > they > > mess up the boxing characters. > > > > ;/3 4 5 6{a. > > > > (My email fonts don't have the a. symbols) > > > > ┌─┬─┬─┬─┐ > > > > │ │ │ │ │ > > > > └─┴─┴─┴─┘ > > > > I discovered that the unicode suit symbols u: 9824 9827 9829 9830 > > > > are smaller, and seem to have the standard width: > > > > ;/u:9824 9827 9829 9830 > > > > ┌─┬─┬─┬─┐ > > > > │♠│♣│♥│♦│ > > > > └─┴─┴─┴─┘ > > > > So that solves the width problem when boxing. > > > > > > The other issue I had with seemingly random spaces in the cards in a > random > > deal was caused by my four 10 cards (10 of spades, hearts. etc) having > > three characters instead of two. J cleverly distributes spaces across > each > > boxes' content to make the boxes align. However, the seemingly random > > distribution of spaces confused my diagnosis. > > > > J distributes spaces across all the cells to make the boxes align for > > variable width contents. This exacerbates the issue with the non-standard > > widths of the a. font. However, the fixed-width unicode symbols > eliminates > > the issue, though it might be better if the spaces were inserted before > or > > after the characters, rather than placed in the middle. > > > > > > 4 13$(52?52){all > > > > ┌───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐ > > > > │10♠│9 ♣│K ♥│3 ♣│J ♦│4 ♠│4 ♦│2 ♠│6 ♥│3 ♠│K ♦│Q ♥│J ♣│ > > > > ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ > > > > │5 ♥│5 ♠│9 ♥│Q ♠│7 ♦│5 ♣│3 ♥│10♦│8 ♦│J ♥│4 ♣│9 ♦│6 ♣│ > > > > ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ > > > > │8 ♣│J ♠│A ♣│7 ♣│Q ♦│6 ♦│10♣│K ♣│A ♥│2 ♥│A ♠│4 ♥│9 ♠│ > > > > ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤ > > > > │7 ♠│3 ♦│5 ♦│Q ♣│8 ♥│2 ♦│10♥│A ♦│K ♠│7 ♥│2 ♣│8 ♠│6 ♠│ > > > > └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘ > > > > It would probably be better for me to use the character 'T' instead of > 10, > > so all the cards would have two characters. > > > > > > Finally, it would still be nice to have a simple way to remove the > > horizontal and corner box characters for times when presenting J in > venues > > where fixed-width or unicode fonts are not available. > > > > > > Skip Cave > > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 10:20 AM Raul Miller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> If the fixed width font has variable width characters, that's not a > >> bug in J, that's a problem with the font. > >> > >> One approach would be to rebuild the font's characters, enforcing a > >> fixed width format. Doing this requires access to either suitable > >> tools, or sufficient documentation on the font's data structures so > >> that you can build your own tools. > >> > >> -- > >> Raul > >> > >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 11:10 AM Skip Cave <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> > >>> When working in JQT with some of the non-standard-width characters in > a., > >>> the boxing formatting is incorrect. > >>> Here's a link to a screenshot (.png) of my code in JQT attempting to > >> create > >>> all the 13 playing cards in 4 suits. https://bit.ly/2BD6LEQ > >>> > >>> > >>> As you can see, the horizontal boxing characters are incorrect, and > don't > >>> adjust for the wider characters, even though I'm using a fixed-width > >> font. > >>> > >>> In the second part of the example, I randomly deal 4 hands from the > deck > >>> labeled 'all'. > >>> > >>> At this point, we have 4 hands of 13 cards, but there are random spaces > >>> scattered in the boxed cards. > >>> > >>> Something went wrong, adding spaces after the random deal. > >>> > >>> In the third part, I remove all the horizontal boxing, making the > display > >>> look much neater, but the extra spaces are even more visible. > >>> > >>> > >>> Two issues: > >>> > >>> 1. Something is inserting random spaces when randomly selecting boxed > >> items. > >>> > >>> 2. It would be nice to have the boxing auto-adjust for variable width > >>> characters. If that isn't possible, it would be useful to have a boxing > >>> format option to remove horizontal boxing & corner characters for > >>> environments that don't have fixed-with fonts, that use > >> non-standard-width > >>> characters, or that force double-spaced lines (Quora). After posting J > >>> problems and solutions in various venues, it turns out that the > vertical > >>> bar (│) without horizontal bars or corners, is quite enough to clearly > >>> delineate separate items in most cases. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Skip Cave > >>> Cave Consulting LLC > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> 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 > > > > -- > ---------------------- > mail written using NEO > neo-layout.org > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
