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 f7ULSH931842 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:28:17 +0200 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.4/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f7ULSHT16995 . for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:28:17 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C1319A.AEC5AE80" 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 f7ULSGG18824 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:28:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.57]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA04817 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:28:16 +0200 (MEST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f7ULSFJ06170 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:28:15 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f7ULRKb28381; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:27:20 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id f7ULQJo03843; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:26:19 +0200 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 1389 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:26:18 +0200 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id f7ULQIo03837 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:26:18 +0200 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 f7ULR2b28260 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:27:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (apostolo@localhost) by obelix.ee.duth.gr (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA17959 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:29:08 +0300 (EET DST) Return-Path: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: LaTeX3 and Omega Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 22:29:08 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Apostolos Syropoulos" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4146 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1319A.AEC5AE80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable One of the goals of the LaTeX3 project is to "...provide access to arbitrary fonts from any family (such as the POSTSCRIPT and TrueType fonts) including a wide range of fonts for multi-lingual documents and the specialist glyphs required by documents in various technical and academic areas." Currently the only typesetting engine capable to provide these facilities is Omega. So, is it reasonable to assume that the LaTeX3 will be actually an Omega format? Moreover, since Omega provides a = number of commands that can be used to specify the writting direction, isn't reasonable to expect formatting commands to have an optional writting direction specifier, e.g., \begin{center}[LRL] arabic or hebrew text \end{center} or even better \begin{center}[Arabic] arabic or hebrew text \end{center} 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_01C1319A.AEC5AE80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable LaTeX3 and Omega

    One of the goals of the LaTeX3 = project is to

  "...provide access to arbitrary fonts from = any family (such as the
   POSTSCRIPT and TrueType fonts) including = a wide range of fonts for
   multi-lingual documents and the = specialist glyphs required by
   documents in various technical and = academic areas."

   Currently the only typesetting engine = capable to provide these
facilities is Omega. So, is it reasonable to assume = that the LaTeX3
will be actually an Omega format? Moreover, since = Omega provides a number
of commands that can be used to specify the writting = direction, isn't
reasonable to expect formatting commands to have an = optional
writting direction specifier, e.g.,

\begin{center}[LRL]
   arabic or hebrew text
\end{center}

or even better

\begin{center}[Arabic]
   arabic or hebrew text
\end{center}

A.S.

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*snail mail: 366, 28th October Str., GR-671 00  = Xanthi, HELLAS *
*email     : = apostolo@ocean1.ee.duth.gr        = ;            =     *
*phone num.: = +30-(0)541-28704         &nb= sp;           &nbs= p;            = *
*home page : http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/~apo= stolo          &nbs= p;     *
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