apl and unicode help please

I use linux with kde and all that comes with it. I trying to be able to type
apl into a file using my editor kwrite without having my interpreter
active. I want to set it up to use unicode. I believe what is needed is a
keyboard config and the fonts.

Is this possible and if so how?

Marvin Smoak wrote:
> I use linux with kde and all that comes with it. I trying to be able to type
> apl into a file using my editor kwrite without having my interpreter
> active. I want to set it up to use unicode. I believe what is needed is a
> keyboard config and the fonts.
>
> Is this possible and if so how?

the short answer is Yes -- once you've cracked the Unicode problem,
you've cracked the APL problem, the APL character repertoire being a
proper subset of Unicode

I don't know how you crack the Unicode problem, though, because I know
nothing about kwrite

you will a keyboard config, if you're going to type more than a few
characters of APL -- the last one I did was 8 years ago, so it may
take some time to find it -- maybe someone else can help here

fonts is a dead easy issue to settle, because Linux can use TTFs --
Arial Unicode MS has a full set of APL chars, if you can get a copy

also, check out http://www.vector.org.uk/?area=fonts -- the fonts
available here do not, in general, have any hinting, so they're fine for
printing (at 300dpi, minimum) but not so good scaled down for lo-res screens

AFAIK, none of the "math" fonts, such as Cambria and Stix, have full APL
coverage

HTH . . . /phil