At 12:21 AM 3/15/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I just wanted to say that I like the idea proposed by Idris Samawi Hamid
>(was it here or on the Omega list?) of calling 'Gamma' the ConTeXt
>format based on the Omega engine. Note that, since gamma is five
>letters long, we can easily have gamma-en, gamma-nl, gamma-it and
>so on and so forth, without breaking the eight-letter-rule.
>
>I propose that 'native' support for this is added in texexec, so
>that saying --make en --tex=omega creates gamma-en instead of
>cont-en. This would allow someone to keep both formats on disk.
>(Hans, if you want, I can send you a patch for this.)
Actually, omega should have a different fmt extension, say ofmt
The format clash is a rather general, and part of a wider problem that
web2c only supports one dimension of prefixing, which means for instance
that pdftex.cfg and similar files are also shared among apps; maybe a sheme
like
pdftex.context.somevar =
omega.context.somevar =
or some auto searching
texmf/web2c/omega
texmf/web2c/pdftex
is more future save (maybe we should discuss this with olaf and the tex
live gurus)
for the moment, you can do something:
OMEGA.TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/omega/web2c
Hans
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