Re: [NTG-context] Status update on e-Omega/Aleph

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 06:08:12PM +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

Monday, September 8, 2003 Bill McClain wrote:

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On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:43:26 +0200 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

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I'd like to inform you on the current status and short-term forecast for e-Omega.

Thanks to the e-Omega group for your work. I think this is a great step forward.

Uh ... not really, unless you need it for some very special stuff.

The only "general" advancement in Omega (and thus Aleph) which is of "general" interest is the presence of more than 15 math families, which can greatly reduce the programmer's onus in supporting multiple symbol sets. This is not something for the general user, though, unless some low-level programming for this takes place first. (Hi there, Hans! ;>)

In your announcement you mentioned:

containing most of the Omega enhancements (support for large fonts, multiple directions and character coding manipulations (OTPs/OCPs); the only unavailable feature is the support for

I hope this brings TeX from the ASCII world into the Unicode world. Does this imply internal support for the various input encodings, such as utf-8? Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping@scaprea.hobby.nl home page: scaprea.hobby.nl