[tex-live] Re: URGENT!!

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 10:30:08PM +0300, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
> 
> But that's what we are actually trying to do: to make people aware of
> Omega and its capabilities.

yes, its a worthy aim. but does it help or hinder its 
takeup if you encourage people to use in production what is
really an alpha-state bit of research software?

> And of course people that use English or
> any other language that uses the  Latin alphabet are quite happy with
> TeX
I'm not :-}

> but we  (the majority?) who do not use the Latin alphabet
> we are not so happy with TeX. Try to type Cherokee, Greek and Russian
> with TeX and you will see what I mean.

I am tempted to say "so use Microsoft Word like all the rest of the
Greeks and Russians" :-}

> So we want to encourage the
> non-english speaking people to adopt a real solution to their
> multilingual typesetting business.

Omega isn't a real solution yet, is it?

> But if they don't try it or don't learn its features, how on earth it will
> ever succeed?

It will succeed when someone picks it up and "sells" it; maybe your
book will be the catalyst. TeX Live 7 won't be, I know that much.
What you need to do is a put a reliable version on the CD in the back
of your book. Is that possible? Can we make a special TL for your book?

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