On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 06:08:12PM +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> Monday, September 8, 2003 Bill McClain wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:43:26 +0200
> > Giuseppe Bilotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >> I'd like to inform you on the current status and short-term
> >> forecast for e-Omega.

Thanks to the e-Omega group for your work. I think this is a great
step forward.

> 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?

Regards, Simon

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Simon Pepping
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