With J for TeX

Last summer I asked the Jforum for advice regarding the conversion of J text to a format suitable for placing J expressions and session logs into TeX word processing documents. There were a couple dozen follow-up posts to the Jforum and I received many private e-mail messages. There have been independent threads regarding TeX in comp.lang.apl too. I was quite surprised by the high level of interest and impressed by the number of sophisticated comments. I also enjoyed a few good laughs. This note offers some remarks on the Jforum discussion, what I eventually did, what the alternatives were, and what I might have done if I could have foreseen the future. While the core computation was simple escape sequence substitution, there also were subtle contexts for modifications when lines end and when box drawing characters appear. J's adverb facility helped with those situations and the use of J-defined function keys made the J to TeX conversion much easier.

Title	With J for TeX
Creator	Reiter, Clifford A.
Publisher	APL Quote Quad
Academic Department	Mathematics
Division	Natural Sciences
Organization	Lafayette College
Date Issued	June 2001
Date Available	2015-04-17T19:57:46Z
Type	Article
Language	English
Bibliographic Citation	Reiter, C. A. (2001 Jun.) "With J for TeX." APL Quote Quad 31 (4): 20-4.
Standard Identifier	DOI 10.1145/542957.542963
Standard Identifier	Handle 10385/1807
Permalink	http://hdl.handle.net/10385/1807
Rights Statement	In Copyright