From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/13131 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Bilotta Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re[2]: Status update on e-Omega/Aleph Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:06:59 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <734246956.20030909010659@iol.it> References: <7814046437.20030908164326@iol.it> <20030908100724.074c4d7a.wmcclain@salamander.com> <12319132571.20030908180812@iol.it> <20030908175903.GA961@scaprea> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063062960 1678 80.91.224.253 (8 Sep 2003 23:16:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 23:16:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Tue Sep 09 01:15:58 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 19wVEk-0004yt-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2003 01:15:58 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1E9C10B42; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:15:55 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from smtp2.libero.it (smtp2.libero.it [193.70.192.52]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4920F10B13 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:10:34 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from OBLOMOV (151.29.140.8) by smtp2.libero.it (7.0.019) id 3F58A2C3000CDDC9 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:11:07 +0200 X-Mailer: The Bat! (v2.00) CD5BF9353B3B7091 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <20030908175903.GA961@scaprea> 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:13131 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:13131 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. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta