Hi Taco,
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:48:34 -0600, Taco Hoekwater
Hi all (Idris especially),
When you read the Omega 1.12 documentation, section 12 is all about Input and Output text file encodings and how Omega deals with those in a much more elaborate way than traditional TeX. In particular, there are "modes" and "translations", along with a number of (mixed case, yuk) primitives.
I would like very much to have a smalll but complete set of test files to make sure that my merge of the Aleph code into LuaTeX is correct. Because the I/O internals are quite different, I have a hard time making sure LuaTeX behaves just like Aleph.
I'll put something together using the gamma module (see m-gamma.tex and type-omg.tex) sometime today. See also the off-list mail I sent you.
Idris, could you (or perhaps another Aleph user) create such a set of test files? Something like a mini-trip test for just this bit of code.
I just checked out that section: as far as I can remember I have never used any of these primitives at all in any of my work. Roger Wright apparently uses some of this: http://pws.prserv.net/Roger_Wright/ROGER.HTM http://pws.prserv.net/Roger_Wright/utf8test.htm As well as Vincent Zoonekynd http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/ http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/Omega-Japanese/doc.html This is interesting; it allows one to globally specify the input encoding prior/independent of the ocp-list. I've always just done that inside the ocp list itself in my own work (but then again I use multiple inputs generally). Perhaps this mechanism holds a clue to the problem of abstracting ocp lists so that the input encodings, internal translation processing, and output font mapping can be handled separately instead of hard-wired into a single ocp list. Does anyone have that book written on LaTeX by our Greek colleague (I don't remember his name); it has a chapter on Omega and maybe some examples I'll send a note to the aleph list to see if anyone else has used this stuff. Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/