ConTeXt or Omega?

ConTeXt or Omega?

[Matthew Huggett]

Hi:

I know that some people are using ConTeXt with Omega.  What's the benefit to
using Omega instead of a native ConTeXt module?  Is it better to develop
ConTeXt's language handling capablilities (as with the Chinese package) or
use Omega OTPs?


Thanks,

Matt

Re: ConTeXt or Omega?

[Hans Hagen]

At 07:22 PM 12/13/2002 +0900, Matthew Huggett wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I know that some people are using ConTeXt with Omega.  What's the benefit to
>using Omega instead of a native ConTeXt module?  Is it better to develop
>ConTeXt's language handling capablilities (as with the Chinese package) or
>use Omega OTPs?

it depends on what you want to achieve, so: what do you have in mind?

[omega is *not* a multi lingual system, it's a 32 bit tex, with a 
preprocessor (otp) and multidirectional typesetting; there's nothing really 
new in terms of primitives related to languages, for instance there is no 
\chinesenumeral (which is why i had to define it myself)]

Hans


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