Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f1BGvXH11643 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:57:33 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1BGvTd25629 . for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:57:33 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C0944B.B9F9FC80" Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1BGvTM04222 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:57:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.56]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA22178 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:57:28 +0100 (MET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1BGvSM04215 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:57:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <13.8BACB67C@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:57:21 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 487638 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:57:25 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22145 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:57:23 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25582 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:57:23 +0100 Received: from obelix.ee.duth.gr (asterix.ee.duth.gr [193.92.243.98]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1BGvKu13064 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:57:21 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (apostolo@localhost) by obelix.ee.duth.gr (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA25129 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 19:04:53 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: Return-Path: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: hyphenation morass Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:04:53 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Apostolos Syropoulos" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3802 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0944B.B9F9FC80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > I would like to suggest UTF8. First of all, they would also be usable = with > Omega, and second, parsing UTF8 is easier than parsing LaTeX internal > character representation (LICR?). I agree with you. TeX imposes, in my opinion, arbitrary limitation that have no place in a world of super fast PCs with virtually unlimited memory compared to the machines of the seventies. The future is Omega or any Unicode based typesetting engine capable to handle OpenType fonts and able to generate PDF. A.S. **************************************************************** *Apostolos Syropoulos * *snail mail: 366, 28th October Str., GR-671 00 Xanthi, HELLAS * *email : apostolo@ocean1.ee.duth.gr * *phone num.: +30-(0)541-28704 * *home page : http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/~apostolo * **************************************************************** ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0944B.B9F9FC80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: hyphenation morass

On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

> I would like to suggest UTF8. First of all, they = would also be usable with
> Omega, and second, parsing UTF8 is easier than = parsing LaTeX internal
> character representation (LICR?).

I agree with you. TeX imposes, in my opinion, = arbitrary limitation that
have no place in a world of super fast PCs with = virtually unlimited
memory compared to the machines of the seventies. The = future is Omega
or any Unicode based typesetting engine capable to = handle OpenType
fonts and able to generate PDF.

A.S.

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