At 06:26 PM 3/12/2002 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>Dear friends,
>
>After an exchange with Giuseppe Bilotta on CTT, I am interested in trying
>out ConTeXt with Omega. How does one install the ConTeXt format under
>Omega? I know that the ConTeXt is compiled
>with pdf-e-TeX, and that ConTeXt has hooks into features specific to that
>format. My situation is that I do a lot of multilingual typesetting under
>Omega using features not available in pdf-e-TeX. I am
>would like to test the claim of ConTeXt's improved typesetting
>functionality over LaTeX in a multilingual context (mainly scholarly
>Arabic). I've looked at the install manual and did a standard install of
>ConTeXt as well, but it's not clear to me exactly how to proceed to
>compile it under Omega 1.15. Has anyone tried ConTeXt-Omega before? Any
>reports?
>
>Also:
>1. While Omega itself will not support the pdfTeX and e-TeX extensions of
>ConTeXt, will dvipdfm at least support some of the pdf-related stuff in
>ConTeXt?
texexec --make --alone --tex=omega en
should do the job; i just tested this and found out that omega needs twice
as much main mem so you may need to increse the values in texmf.cnf)
Then a simple file
\starttext
does it work
\stoptext
with
texexec --tex=omega thisfile
should work
Hans
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