Saturday, May 17, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote: HH> At 13:09 17/05/2003 -0600, Idris S Hamid wrote:
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
BTW, Idris, I locally made a few changes to m-gamma, partly to make it more ConTeXtish, and partly to make it capable of using the latest OTPs (those from the 1.2x series, which anyway don't seem to fix the problem); you may want to have a look at it and "officialize" the changes. Shall I send it to you?
Sure, I'll be happy to look at it. But I'd also be happy to turn over maintanence of m-gamma to you (and Hans), since u're much more of an expert in these things and I'm still a rank amateur:-)
HH> as soon as you have m-gamma complete i'll move thinsg to the core of context Two things: supporting gamma is for me somewhat a problem, because I have *very* limited knowledge of the multilingual stuff which is in it. The only fixes I implemented were some "ConTeXtization" of a few things which had remained "LaTeXish" or even TeXish in a couple of cases. Anyway, the current m-gamma thing can only be a temporary solution: the whole thing really needs to be redesigned from scratch with ConTeXt in mind, and ConTeXt-specific OTPs should be designed.
Off-topic: By the way, we need a torture file for eOmega. I'm still a little worried that the TRIP-fix may have broken some of the Omega-specific
HH> what tripping the problem? it may be an unimportant one It was an extremely important one: it popped up in many real-world cases (at least according to Alan). The fix should not break anything, because it consisted in a removal of a routine which was used but without side-effects (at least that I could see). There other tripping problems (i.e. I *lied* when I said e-Omega can now trip correctly), but these seem to be major and will be addressed in the (hopefully near) future.
features, and a good torture file would help immensely in noticing these things. I'll try to whip something up in addition to Omega's torture.tex (which I could never get to work anyway...)
HH> forget about such tests, the real test for eomega is a 300 page document HH> with average memory settings; the main thing is to make sure that the otp HH> parser does not keep on reading whole files Do you have some such a test file? If you provide a link, I can try it here. Anyway, we do need real torture tests, possibly as heinous as TRIP and ETRIP (which BTW reminds me I should try to ETRIP e-Omega ...). -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta