Re: [Jprogramming] Export system

2022-08-06 Thread Richard Donovan
How very useful! Thank you, Bill, I wasn’t aware of that feature From: Programming on behalf of bill lam Sent: Saturday, August 6, 2022 12:03:43 AM To: programm...@jsoftware.com Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Export system You may use locked scripts, usually effec

Re: [Jprogramming] Poll questions: new refcard

2022-08-06 Thread Ian Clark
Once you start letting-in footnotes (…refugees from the Land of Textbooks?) where do you stop? Isn't the proper place for all such supporting information at the far end of a weblink, which is all you need to display on the card? There you can show the J Reference Card with spider-lines to the "fo

Re: [Jprogramming] Poll questions: new refcard

2022-08-06 Thread Henry Rich
The footnotes serve to reduce the amount of text in the table.  If you put all that information into the table, the table would become much bigger and would have large areas of empty space.  Space is going for $1000/square inch. The footnotes are not for completeness.  They give only informati

Re: [Jprogramming] Poll questions: new refcard

2022-08-06 Thread Ian Clark
I've been misapprehended. Maybe because I traded precision for terseness. I used "footnote" when I meant narrative [text] in general. As opposed to symbolic [text], which is the real meat of a reference card. The old 6.02 refcard has very few *footnotes* as such (i.e. narrative linked to its targe

[Jprogramming] Report on the J wiki Meeting of August 4, 2022

2022-08-06 Thread 'robert therriault' via Programming
Present: Art Anger, John Baker, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault 1) Bob reviewed the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWqixYyb52Q that he produced to show people places of interest on the current wiki making use of the sidebar to allow access. 2) In categorizing the essays for t

Re: [Jprogramming] Poll questions: new refcard

2022-08-06 Thread Raul Miller
A (probably future) purely online presentation would likely benefit from "tooltips" (or: hints which are shown on hover).. -- Raul On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 10:47 AM Ian Clark wrote: > > I've been misapprehended. Maybe because I traded precision for terseness. I > used "footnote" when I meant narr

Re: [Jprogramming] Poll questions: new refcard

2022-08-06 Thread 'Viktor Grigorov' via Programming
I initially wanted to do a plaintext version with ANSI C escape codes; and HTML one; and the TeX one. The first proved very annoying after two tables; the second very annoying given special/reserved HTML characters that should be escaped, and the third almost likewise. An internal and official o

[Jprogramming] PR math/calculus informative errors

2022-08-06 Thread Jan-Pieter Jacobs
Hi, A few days ago I wrote an issue on Github [1] for opinions on more informative errors in math/calculus. Understandably, most people seem to have overlooked it. I now also wrote a pull-request [2] for you to try out and see whether you like the errors. For example: load 'math/calculus' NB.