[omega] Some problems with Malayalam Omega

[Norbert Preining]

Hi

wow, I think this is the first post on the Omega mailing list since
many years.

The problems are:
* omega is not developed since many many years
* there is an alternative, aleph/lamed which also is not developed
  anymore.

FOr better alternatives I recommend either xetex or luatex, I think 
this is the best way to go for you.

All the best, and greetings from Japan to India!

Norbert

On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Sasi Kumar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am new here, though I have been using Omega for some years now. I
> have completed two books in Malayalam usin Omega, one in old lipi and
> the other in new lipi. Since I had to redo the first one slightly to
> suit the style book of the publisher, it took me some time and gave me
> many problems:
> 
> 1) To begin with, the index wouldn't work properly. It gave an error
> message that said that none of the entries in the idx file was good
> and rejected all of them. But, fortunately, Mr. C.V. Radhakrishnan
> came to my help and showed me how to edit the idx file and save it as
> ind file to get the index properly.
> 
> 2) Then I had problems like the Malayalam part in the index not always
> following the alphabetical order with a few words at the beginning
> standing apart. Again, I had someone coming to my help (this time it
> was A.J. Alex, the maintainer of Malayalam LaTeX and Malayalam Omega)
> showing me how to edit the ind file to make it all right. But still
> the index is not coming properly. The present problem is that words
> that appear more than once in the book are repeated in the index,
> instead of the word appearing once and the page numbers being listed.
> 
> >From my experience, it looks like a bug in omega than anything else.
> Hence I thought I should report it here, as there are still people
> using omega although xelatex has begun to replace it.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Sasi
> 
> -- 
> V. Sasi Kumar
> Free Software Foundation of India
> Please see: http://swatantryam.blogspot.com/
> 


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