It would be interesting to do an exercise of translating the APL chars over
to J signs and put blanks on each side.

That crude translation might even work in some cases.

2010/11/11 John Baker <[email protected]>

> Greetings All,
>
> I have found a very handy J editor trick for the 602 version of j.exe.
>
> Go to the Vector web site and download the APL385 Unicode font.  The url
> follows:
>
> http://www.vector.org.uk/?area=fonts
>
> <http://www.vector.org.uk/?area=fonts>Install the font and then select it
> as
> the main font in the J configuration tool.  J'ugglers will not see any
> difference.  J looks pretty much like it always does even boxes line up
> properly if you have selected the linedraw option.
>
> Now for all you APL'ers out there.  If your APL can place unicode
> representations of APL code on the clipboard go ahead and generate some.
> Dyalog does this automatically other dialects will need some character
> remapping.
> Now open a new IJS window in J and paste in your APL code.  Voila - the APL
> characters are preserved and all is good and well with the world.
>
> Next up - the federal budget.
>
> Cheers
> John D. Baker
> [email protected]
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   |     ) |         (\_ _/)
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