From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/11139 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Idris S Hamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: context + omega + tetex 2.0 : success story Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:58:53 -0700 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <3E5E43CD.38FD402@lamar.colostate.edu> References: <7E78E258-45E0-11D7-8F21-000393D94AEC@sun1.ftsm.ukm.my> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046365290 13490 80.91.224.249 (27 Feb 2003 17:01:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:01:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18oROJ-0003Pr-00 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:00:15 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EDE710AE8; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:00:30 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mesa.acns.ColoState.EDU (mesa.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.130]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B51710ABB for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:58:55 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by mesa.acns.ColoState.EDU (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA52604 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:58:54 -0700 Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (ihamid.libarts.colostate.edu [129.82.187.166] (may be forged)) by lamar.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.0/8.8.8) with ESMTP id h1RGwlg624274 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:58:47 -0700 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk X-Reply-To: ishamid@colostate.edu List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:11139 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:11139 It's nice to see you got this working. I don't use the latest Omega 1.23.2; still 1.15 here and compiling Gamma works on teTeX and fpTeX without a hitch (for some applications you may have to increase the appropriate texmf.cnf values). Giuseppe has ported much of the eTeX functionality to Omega1.15 (eOmega1.15). Once this is tested and debugged it will make Gamma much easier to run maintain, at least until the Omega people release a stable, fast Omega (one day, perhaps this century;->). As Giuseppe notes, 1.23.2 passes the TRIP test but not 1.15; yet 1.15 works better for most practical purposes and large projects (speed, etc.). Right now, eOmega is only available for MiKTeX; I'm still anxiously awaiting fpTeX (or even teTeX) binaries so I can test it. I am also pursuing some funding avenues for this work. Best wishes Idris zamri wrote: > hello all, > > after on-and-off effort, I finally get context + omega working. The > result is impressive. hat off to hans and idris samawi for their > effort. omega is a tex version that support utf-8 input. it can be used > to typeset arabic. here are some of the things I discovers that might > be useful to others;