[Tuglist] Omega support for Indian Languages?

[Amitabh Trehan]

Thanks. hopefully we can make some good progress and
hope to see some enthusiasm on the list.

Amitabh

--- Radhakrishnan CV <cvr@river-valley.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 at 16:13, A Joseph Koshy wrote:
> 
>    I've a question about the status of Omega, the
> version of TeX
>    that is comfortable typesetting Unicode encoded
> documents,
>    including Indic languages
>    (http://omega-system.sourceforge.net/)
> 
>    How do the experienced TeXperts on this list find
> Omega?
> 
> There is a revived development effort going on for
> Omega now. John
> Plaice and Yannis Haralambous who were the
> originators of the Omega
> system have now agreed to open the system to other
> volunteers who
> are ready to contribute to it. John Plaice wrote in
> the Omega list
> on Oct 29, 2001:
> 
> <quote>
> 
> The new Web page for Omega is coming online. It can
> be found at
> http://omega.cse.unsw.edu.au:8080 and includes links
> to just about
> all of the articles ever written on Omega. A lot of
> new stuff will
> be added to this page in the weeks to come.
> 
> Comments would be welcome.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John Plaice
> 
> </quote>
> 
> However, the support for Indic scripts is
> rudimentary or rather near
> nil. John is coming to India during late this year
> or early next
> year for integrating Indic scripts to Omega. He will
> be in India at
> least for a month. Mahatma Gandhi International Univ
> for Hindi, New
> Delhi will fund his travel (many thanks to the
> efforts of Amitabh
> Trehan for making available the funds) and TUGIndia
> together with
> the University will coordinate John's programs in
> India.
> 
> More news will be in the list when John arrives.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Radhakrishnan
> 
> _______________________________________________
> http://tugindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/tuglist
> Home:     http://www.tugindia.org.in
> Tutorial: http://www.tugindia.org.in/tutorials.html


=====
######============================#############
TrYinG To TaCkLe (La)TeX & Co.
#####=============================#############

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Find a job, post your resume.
http://careers.yahoo.com