That's a very useful w3.org ref, Bill. Some really bad clashes there with the alternative naming conventions we're considering.
Our present aim is a limited one: just to name the ascii J primitives within our own walled garden. But one can come in time to rue limited objectives. Are our page [=primitive] names ever going to have to coexist with pages for a wider set of symbols? Even the people who write official PDF-generating software can't get it right even with ascii, as I've found to my cost with APWJ. People who doubtless said to themselves "let's call a pound a pound, a quote a quote, a star a star... 'cos that's what they are." I had originally thought that people wouldn't have to remember and type these names. But of course there's the need for in-line hypertext links to other NuVoc pages. BTW Haven't we come a long way from the convenience of bare CamelCase for hypertext links. Talk about loss of innocence! :) Was there ever any real need to abandon that simple convention? Ian On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:10 AM, bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com> wrote: > ĵaŭ, 11 Feb 2010, Skip Cave skribis: >> Ithink that the proposed charset.ijs looks pretty good, (from the >> redbook) except I would shorten the following names: >> 35 # numbersign -> number or numsign, >> 38 & ampersand -> amp, >> 39 ' quotesingle -> quotsing, >> 42 * asterisk -> star, >> 46 . period -> dot, >> 94 ^ asciicircum -> hat, >> 95 _ underscore -> under, >> 126 ~ asciitilde -> tilde. > > I think that 'star' is the 5-corner star that found in APL used for > exponentiation. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/bycodes.html > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
