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@@ -9,25 +9,26 @@ provides many innovative concepts, notably including the “translation
process” that takes a character stream and transforms it according to
various processes that may be internally specified, or be a separate
program.
-<p/>While Omega showed a lot of promise at its mid-1990s announcement, its
-development was slow, and development was essentially dead by the time
+<p/>While Omega showed a lot of promise at its mid-1990s announcement,
+progress was slow, and development was essentially dead by the time
that one of the original developers withdrew (taking with him a bunch
of research students).
-<p/>Before that distressing event, a separate thread of development was
-started, to produce a program called Aleph
-, which merged the facilities of
+<p/>Before that distressing event, a separate thread of development had
+started, to produce a program
+called Aleph, which merged the facilities of
<a href="FAQ-etex.html">e-TeX</a> into a stable Omega codebase and added other
extensions. Aleph also proved an attractive platform for many people;
but its development, too, has dried up.
-<p/>The latest news (from EuroTeX 2006) is that development of Omega is
-picking up again, in parallel with research into what the (new)
-authors consider a rational scheme for supporting TeX-style
-typesetting. The new system is to be known as Omega-2
-(Omega subscript 2), and is being
+<p/>A presentation at EuroTeX 2006 claimed that development of Omega
+was picking up again, in parallel with research into what the (new)
+developers consider a rational scheme for supporting TeX-style
+typesetting. The new system was to be known as Omega-2
+(Omega subscript 2), and was to be
designed in a modular fashion so that support of new facilities (such
-as use of advanced OpenType fonts) can be added in a relatively
-straightforward fashion.
-<p/>The work done in the Aleph project is also being carried forward in
-the <a href="FAQ-luatex.html">LuaTeX</a> project.
+as use of advanced OpenType fonts) could be added in a relatively
+straightforward fashion. A quick web search leads to a recommendation
+that potential users consider <a href="FAQ-luatex.html">LuaTeX</a> instead.
+Fortunately, lessons learned in Aleph project are being carried
+forward in the <a href="FAQ-luatex.html">LuaTeX</a> project.
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=omegaleph">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=omegaleph</a>
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