Wolfgang Hoppner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on Monday, February 05,
2001 2:59 PM, asking about work on Unicode support in TeX.
There has been extensive work for several years on the extension of
TeX to support Unicode; the new system is called Omega. Here are some
references from the TUG bibliography archives at
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib
ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib
I've sorted them by ascending year.
@String{j-LECT-NOTES-COMP-SCI = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science"}
@String{j-TUGboat = "TUGboat"}
@String{pub-UNICODE = "The Unicode Consortium"}
@String{pub-UNICODE-SAN-JOSE:adr = "P.O. Box 700519, San Jose, CA 95170-0519,
USA, Phone: +1-408-777-5870,
Fax: +1-408-777-5082,
E-mail: \[EMAIL PROTECTED]="}
@Article{Plaice:1993:LDL,
author = "John Plaice",
title = "Language-dependent ligatures",
journal = j-TUGBOAT,
volume = "14",
number = "3",
pages = "271--274",
month = Oct,
year = "1993",
ISSN = "0896-3207",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 24 19:53:33 1994",
note = "Describes extensions to {\TeX} to support 16-bit
character set input, with a particular view to Unicode
support.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
}
@Article{Haralambous:TB15-3-344,
author = "Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice",
title = "{First applications of $\Omega$: {Adobe Poetica},
{Arabic}, {Greek}, {Khmer}}",
journal = j-TUGboat,
volume = "15",
number = "3",
pages = "344--352",
month = sep,
year = "1994",
ISSN = "0896-3207",
bibdate = "Sat Oct 28 17:00:18 MDT 2000",
bibsource = "ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/tugboat.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table-t.html#tugboat",
acknowledgement = ack-bnb # " and " # ack-nhfb,
}
@Article{Plaice:1994:POP,
author = "John Plaice",
title = "Progress in the {Omega} Project",
journal = j-TUGBOAT,
volume = "15",
number = "3",
pages = "320--324",
month = sep,
year = "1994",
ISSN = "0896-3207",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 24 16:31:29 1994",
note = "Omega is an extension of {\TeX} for 16-bit character
sets.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
}
@Article{Fairbairns:TB16-3-325,
author = "Robin Fairbairns",
title = "{Omega --- {Why} bother with {Unicode}?}",
journal = j-TUGboat,
volume = "16",
number = "3",
pages = "325--328",
month = sep,
year = "1995",
ISSN = "0896-3207",
bibdate = "Sat Oct 28 17:00:18 MDT 2000",
bibsource = "ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/tugboat.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table-t.html#tugboat",
acknowledgement = ack-bnb # " and " # ack-nhfb,
}
@Article{Haralambous:TB16-4-418,
author = "Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice and Johannes
Braams",
title = "{Never again active characters! {$\Omega$}-{Babel}}",
journal = j-TUGboat,
volume = "16",
number = "4",
pages = "418--427",
month = dec,
year = "1995",
ISSN = "0896-3207",
bibdate = "Sat Oct 28 17:00:18 MDT 2000",
bibsource = "ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/tugboat.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table-t.html#tugboat",
acknowledgement = ack-bnb # " and " # ack-nhfb,
}
@Article{Plaice:TB17-2-181,
author = "John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous",
title = "{The latest developments in {$\Omega$}}",
journal = j-TUGboat,
volume = "17",
number = "2",
pages = "181--183",
month = jun,
year = "1996",
ISSN = "0896-3207",
bibdate = "Sat Oct 28 17:00:18 MDT 2000",
bibsource = "ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/tugboat.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table-t.html#tugboat",
acknowledgement = ack-bnb # " and " # ack-nhfb,
}
@Article{Haralambous:1998:DUM,
author = "Y. Haralambous and J. Plaice",
title = "The Design and Use of a Multiple-Alphabet Font with
Omega",
journal = j-LECT-NOTES-COMP-SCI,
volume = "1375",
pages = "126--??",
year = "1998",
CODEN = "LNCSD9",
ISSN = "0302-9743",
bibdate = "Sat Oct 10 14:40:24 MDT 1998",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
}
@InProceedings{Haralambous:1999:UTC,
author = "Yannis Haralambous",
editor = "{Unicode Consortium}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th Unicode Conference, Boston,
1999",
title = "From {Unicode} to Typography, a Case Study: the
{Greek} Script",
publisher = pub-UNICODE,
address = pub-UNICODE-SAN-JOSE:adr,
pages = "????",
year = "1999",
ISBN = "????",
LCCN = "????",
bibdate = "Fri Oct 22 08:22:28 1999",
URL = "http://genepi.louis-jean.com/omega/boston99.pdf",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
}
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