On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> ...I mean, why not put ">" ">." ">:" all on the same page too... > aren't they supposed to be the same symbol "inflected"? > That leads to the problem of the novice finding the relevant material after loading the page. That said, a "see also" at the top of the page, for alternate spellings (somewhat along the lines of Prev/Next links) might be appropriate for novices. Some related questions are: how much introductory material should be repeated on some or most pages? (for example, treatment of spelling, grammar and rank) how much exposition should be by example (J sentences with responses) and how much should be using english sentences? should some pages have pre-requisites, where the reader is advised to study other pages first? should some pages have introductory/advanced structures where we first introduce the reader to some essential cases and then come back and treat the operation with more rigor? In all cases I think we should favor "ease of digestion" over "ease of preparation". The dictionary is not outrageously big and while automated page building can be tempting if need be we can rewrite pages from scratch using copy+pasted text rather than trying to extract content from over complicated wiki markup (I hope). For now let's just try to keep the markup simple enough that it does not stop us? Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
