From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/13157 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Status update on e-Omega/Aleph Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 18:49:12 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20030909184703.0286c558@localhost> References: <7814046437.20030908164326@iol.it> <20030908100724.074c4d7a.wmcclain@salamander.com> <3F5DF59C.CB10633C@lamar.colostate.edu> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063192607 20597 80.91.224.253 (10 Sep 2003 11:16:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:16:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Wed Sep 10 13:16:45 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 19x2xp-0000H8-00 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:16:45 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AB6510B8E; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:16:41 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.net (mail.solcon.net [212.45.33.5]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F4A10B8C for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:04:04 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mail.solcon.net (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h8AB3wj28490 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:03:58 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 0D6E021F24; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:03:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from laptop-3.wxs.nl (unknown [10.100.1.1]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E0C21F20 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:03:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender: hagen-mail@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <3F5DF59C.CB10633C@lamar.colostate.edu> Original-References: <7814046437.20030908164326@iol.it> <20030908100724.074c4d7a.wmcclain@salamander.com> 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:13157 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:13157 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------