From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/10124 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt or Omega? Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:52:16 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20021213114954.00af2d60@server-1> References: <000d01c2a291$94339000$0200a8c0@home> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039776878 3674 80.91.224.249 (13 Dec 2002 10:54:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:54:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "ConTeXt Mailing List" 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 18MnSn-0000x2-00 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:54:37 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A70E410AF6; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:54:54 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.nl (mail.solcon.nl [212.45.33.11]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C88E10AF5 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:52:30 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-ade.nl (wc-58016.solcon.nl [212.45.58.16]) by mail.solcon.nl (8.12.5/pre1.0-MySQL/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gBDBhpPx020756 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:43:52 +0100 Original-Received: from LAPTOP-3.wxs.nl (laptop-3 [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-ade.nl (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gBDAqPgi003591; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:52:25 +0100 X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <000d01c2a291$94339000$0200a8c0@home> X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.1(snapshot 20020919) (mail.solcon.nl) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk 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:10124 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:10124 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------