On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> > I didn't test, but definitely because the current font doesn't
> > have any glyphs at position zero.
>
> No, I think that is the wrong conclusion. (latex finds a Gamma there)
No, I'm sure that's the right conclusion. Quoting omega.sty:
\def\rmdefault{omlgc}
So the default font is not cmr anymore.
> > > Things look like lambda parses the input twice, where \charN is
> > > interpreted on the first pass and replaced by the appropriate
> > > character, where then that character is parsed again.
> >
> > Well, it's kind of a bug in Omega that is passing `#' down the
> > stack, but what happens is, like you said, the stream of
> > characters is passed through all the current OCP list members, so
> > a \char'043 is not a font position anymore, it is processed by
> > OCPs first.
>
> Yes - so omega lost the \charN way of representing font positions,
> and as far as I know nothing came back to replace it, so it looks
> like omega cannot be used when low font positions are needed.
As I said, \clearocplist
> > BTW, it's sad that the Omega project is not supported anymore. I
> > just tried to find its old web pages with Google and failed.
>
> Yes. People tell me that it has been replaced by Aleph.
> Maybe that is not quite dead yet. The Jan 2005 archive
> http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/aleph/2005-January/thread.html
> of the mailing list has 5 messages.
> I just enriched the Feb 2005 archive with the first message.
Humm...
> Andries
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