Thanks those look quite good. I've updated the wiki discussion page to show the current, Wikipedia and Postscript names. http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/Discussion
The only ones I don't like much from the Postscript reference are asciicircum and asciitilde. It would be nice to have a definitive external reference, but may perhaps using just circum and tilde would be OK? I think that we could also use minus instead of hyphen (it is defined in The Red Book separately to hyphen but refers to the same character). The second question is whether to spell out the trailing periods and colons as suggested by Ian, or leave it as it is currently and use Brian's suggestion of a trailing slash in email correspondence to stop email clients from being clever. I like the brevity of using the symbols as well as the way it separates the main graphic from the "accents". Nice parallels with the actual primitives. However I am worried that although it seems to work OK on the wiki (and in email with Brian's suggestion) it might come back and bite us in some other way at a later stage. Let's have some opinions: 0) The schema for the Symbol names should be a) Current b) Wikipedia c) Postscript d) some mix of those e) same as J Dictionary f) 1) If the schema used were one of a-d above, should the trailing periods, and colons be: a) spelt out b) left as symbols > From: Robert P. Rumble > > At 09:18 AM 2/3/2010 -0500, David Mitchell, in reply to Brian Schott's > question, wrote: > >Wikipedia has these links for the red book: > > > >PostScript Language Reference, third edition (PLR3), plus its > Supplement, > is the > >de facto defining work, known as "The Red Book" on account of its > covers. > > > >http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/PLRM.pdf > >http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/PS3010and3011.Supplem > ent.pdf > > > > In this edition of the Red Book, the encoding vectors (names for the > various characters/glyphs) are in Appendix E. starting on printed page > page > 773, PDF format page 787. (My reference to Appedix A was for an > earlier > edition.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
