From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/13141 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Idris S Hamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Status update on e-Omega/Aleph Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 09:45:32 -0600 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <3F5DF59C.CB10633C@lamar.colostate.edu> References: <7814046437.20030908164326@iol.it> <20030908100724.074c4d7a.wmcclain@salamander.com> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063122732 26488 80.91.224.253 (9 Sep 2003 15:52:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:52:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Tue Sep 09 17:52:10 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19wkmo-0000cU-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:52:10 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E5010B60; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:52:00 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mesa.acns.ColoState.EDU (mesa.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.130]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2516910B32 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:46:52 +0200 (MEST) 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 JAA37922 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:46:50 -0600 Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (ihamid.libarts.colostate.edu [129.82.187.166]) by lamar.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id h89FjWH383714 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:45:32 -0600 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:13141 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:13141 > * If my work is entirely in English, is there any benfit of Aleph for > me? Sure. Consider, for example, the problem of transliteration. You may want to define a series of character mappings using otps to avoid using a lot of control sequences for accents and the like. Let's say u have an accent "\.d" that u use often for transliterating some sound. With an otp u can define the character sequence ".d" so that it always gives you \.d in the output. You can group your otp's so that they only take effect when delimited in some predefined way, e.g. "<.d>" Suppose you want a character to behave as a control sequence but don't want to make that character active. You can define a character in an otp so that whenever you type it you get a particular control sequence. I'm sure there are other creative examples as well. Best wishes Idris