(I hate replying to myself, but ...)

Ok, since it seems that e-Omega is starting to get some "mass"
interest, I'm thinking about setting up a mailing list for it.
Maybe two, one for users and one for developers. Any
suggestions on the listserver to use?

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

GB> Wednesday, August 27, 2003 Tim 't Hart wrote:

TtH>> Jin-Hwan Cho wrote:

>>>My suggestion for supporting CJK characters in ConTeXt is to write a
>>>new module using e-Omega. Even though e-Omega does not produce PDF
>>>format directly, there are not much problem with DVIPDFMx.

TtH>> When I first tried to use Japanese with ConTeXt, I first looked at
TtH>> e-Omega. The reason I gave up and tried to adapt the Chinese module
TtH>> was that e-Omega was unstable on my machine. Version 1.23 crashed
TtH>> immediately (got stuck in a loop producing [] characters). I tried
TtH>> 1.15 because I heard that was more stable. I got some Japanese
TtH>> output with this version, but when I tried creating more than a
TtH>> paragraph, it locked as well. But this was all a few months ago.
TtH>> Does anybody know if things with e-Omega have improved recently?

GB> I happen to be in the e-Omega task force, so I'm extremely
GB> interested in any bug report you may have on it. For the
GB> moment, let's stick to the 1.15 version, which is the official
GB> version.

GB> First of all, which TeX distribution are you using, and what
GB> does the e-Omega banner say? I know there are people using
GB> e-Omega for production use, so you might want to see if there
GB> is an upgrade available for your distribution.

GB> Secondly, do you have a test file I could give a look at? If it
GB> needs any nonstandard extra files/fonts/metrics/packages,
GB> please give me pointers to these as well.




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