Re: Status update on e-Omega/Aleph

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:45 09/09/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> > * 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.

i suggest that later this year idris/gb/me try to cook up a manual for that 
kind of thingies

Hans


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