Typesetting APL dialects

Abstract

Solutions to the problem of typesetting APL dialects were so far severely constrained, for they always relied on specific transliteration schemes or workspaces for automatic transliteration available for only a few interpreters. In this article I introduce an alternative solution to the problem of typesetting APL dialects which does not require transliteration of primitives. Instead, I implement a direct typesetting approach using a Type 1 (or outline) APL font, an encoding vector, and a LATEX package named listings. I finally present a series of examples in order to illustrate the typesetting of APL snippets, code segments, lists of standing files, and their straightforward integration into a document.