Re[2]: Status update on e-Omega/Aleph

[Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it>]

Monday, September 8, 2003 Simon Pepping wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 06:08:12PM +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>> Uh ... not really, unless you need it for some very special
>> stuff.
>> 
>> The only "general" advancement in Omega (and thus Aleph) which
>> is of "general" interest is the presence of more than 15 math
>> families, which can greatly reduce the programmer's onus in
>> supporting multiple symbol sets. This is not something for the
>> general user, though, unless some low-level programming for
>> this takes place first. (Hi there, Hans! ;>)

> In your announcement you mentioned:

>> containing most of the Omega enhancements (support for large
>> fonts, multiple directions and character coding manipulations
>> (OTPs/OCPs); the only unavailable feature is the support for

> I hope this brings TeX from the ASCII world into the Unicode
> world. Does this imply internal support for the various input
> encodings, such as utf-8?

Yes in general (management of various input encodings is one of
the strong points of Omega) and no in particular. UTF is not
internally supported by Omega 1.15 (it is by Omega 1.23, at
least for what I can see in the sources), and since the current
release of e-Omega is 1.15-based, it has no internal support
for UTF.

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta