Re: [Bug-apl] A GTK wrapper for GNU APL

[Chris Moller]

The keymap came from Sharp APL, which I'd been using for years, but it's easy enough to modernise it.  I'll tinker that in the morning. 

The -m switch switched to the SimPL font which was alleged to be monospace, but isn't quite.  I replaced it just now with GNU FreeMono, which is better, but still doesn't do ]keyb exactly right.  I'll see what I can do about it.  For what I do, proportional pacing looks better, but it's easy enough to make mono the default.

cm

On 08/13/14 00:11, Blake McBride wrote:

Dear Chris,

Wow.  Very nice!  A few things I noticed:

1.  The -m did not put it in mono font for me (using current GIT).

2.  Mono font really should be the default otherwise nothing displays correctly.  Try ]keyb.  Try 5 5⍴⍳25

3.  You are using an old keyboard mapping.  It doesn't match the output of ]keyb.  It also doesn't match my actual keyboard (which was designed to match the GNU APL standard.)

Thanks.

Blake

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Chris Moller <address@hidden> wrote:

I've written a GTK+-based wrapper for APL and Jürgen suggested I tell people about it...

Basically, what it does is provide a textual interface to APL that makes it unnecessary to install keymaps and fonts in xterm, konsole, or whatever CLI you usually use--the keymap and font are built into the utility.

If you're interested, all the links are in the last entry in the Community page at http://www.gnu.org/software/apl/Community.html

For more information, there are INSTALL and README files in the package.  Any bugs or feature requests, let me know.

Chris Moller