Yes I agree that using colour is probably the best solution here. The background colour for the cell containing the primitive could be coloured according to the primitive's part of speech. AFAICS the only primitive whose part of speech differs depending on "context" is underscore which is a Noun or Other - I'd suggest colouring it as for Nouns.
As Fraser suggests it would be sensible to provide a key that maps the colours to the parts of speech. > From: Brian Schott > > I have experimented with adding bold and italics color to the > Vocabulary and have run into a problem that I cannot make this > coloring work. I think the problem is the terms that are part of a > link in the format [[target|text]] because the triple and double > apostrophe's do not work for me around the target or text arguments or > else they mess up the target part of the link. Also some J terms are > entered between graves (`) and that complicates or precludes > apostrophes, I am unclear here, too. So I could use some encouragement > and direction on this matter. Perhaps optical colors would be better, > but I really know nothing about this style. > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Fraser Jackson > <fraser.jack...@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > > Parts of speech > > > > If blue is to indicate verbs then some of the primitives after a. > should be > > in blue. If colour is used to specify parts of speech there sshould > be a > > key. > > > > In most Dictionaries headwords are followed the part of speech. The > DoJ > > vocab page contains the part of speech encoded in the bold and > italics. > > Brian's suggestion of including it is important because otherwise the > > modified vocab page gives no reference to parts of speech at all. > > -- > (B=) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
