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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label omegaleph</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>Omega and Aleph</h3>
+<p>Omega was developed as an extension of
+TeX, to use with multilingual texts, expressed in a variety of
+input encodings. Omega uses 16-bit, Unicode-encoded, characters. It
+provides many innovative concepts, notably including the &ldquo;translation
+process&rdquo; 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
+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
+<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
+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.
+<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>
+</body>