[Jprogramming] Boxed displays

[Raul Miller]

For me, this is less visually noisey in email (where I am only given
the option of displaying a proportionally spaced font) than the
traditional boxed display.  However, adjacent lines still do not
align, so reading the display still takes some thought.

For example, given:

  -----   --- -------
  2 3 4   5 6  -----

For  me, the 4 appears  under the first gap in the line above and the
6 appears under the beginning of the third dashed sequence in the line
above.

Mostly, reading 2 dimensional fixed-width-font displays in gmail is a
chore for me and one I usually neglect.  (I do get the option of
searching a menu for a "message text mangled" option which opens a new
window where I can try to find the boxed display - if I am interested
enough, this works fine, though using this option does require a
distinct shift and re-organization of my stream of thought.  So I need
to be purposeful enough to go off and find the correct display and
then to come back after I am done (albeit, probably finishing my
reading of that message in the alternate window).)

FYI,

-- 
Raul

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:45 PM, km <km at math.uh.edu> wrote:
> What do you think of the following (only top and bottom edges of boxes are shown, corners and sides are spaces)?
>
>    <1 2 3
>  -----
>  1 2 3
>  -----
>    ]y=: (<<2 3 4),<(5 6 ; <<i. 2 3)
>  ------- -------------
>   -----   --- -------
>   2 3 4   5 6  -----
>   -----        0 1 2
>                3 4 5
>                -----
>           --- -------
>  ------- -------------
>
> The hope is this display will be easier to decipher when email mangled.  Kip Murray
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
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