Omega (TeX)
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Omega is an extension of the TeX typesetting system that uses the Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode. It was authored by John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous after TeX development was frozen in 1991, primarily to enhance TeX's multilingual typesetting abilities. It includes a new 16-bit font encoding for TeX, as well as fonts (omlgc and omah) covering a wide range of alphabets.
LaTeX for Omega is invoked as lambda.
Extending Omega with the e-TeX extensions is a separate project, known as Aleph, and led by Giuseppe Bilotta. The LaTeX for Aleph is known as lamed.
At the 2004 TeX Users Group conference, Plaice announced his decision to split off a new project (not yet public), while Haralambous continues to work on Omega proper.
Aleph and pdfTeX are going to be integrated and extended in Oriental TeX by Taco Hoekwater (first release planned in 2007) with the goal to support Unicode, OpenType fonts (and Lua as an integrated lightweight programming language).
External links
- [Omega home page]
- [Omega samples]
- [TeX FAQ entry on Omega]
- [TeX FAQ entry on Aleph]
- [Mailing list for Omega]
- [Mailing list for Aleph]
See also
- XeTeX for another Unicode capable TeX extension.
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