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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label omega</title>
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<h3>The Omega project</h3>
<p>Omega
is a program built by extension of the TeX sources which works
internally with 'wide' characters (it is capable of dealing with all
of Unicode version 3); this allows it to work with most scripts in the
world with few difficulties from coding schemes.
Omega also has a
powerful concept of input and output filters to allow the user to work
with existing transliteration schemes, <em>etc</em>.
<p>A part of the project is to develop a version of LaTeX to work with
Omega, styled
"Lambda".
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<p>Omega was first released in November 1996
by the project originators, John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous; a
recent version is maintained on CTAN. General project
information, as well as copies papers, are available via the
<a href="http://omega.enstb.org">project's web site</a>.
<p>Implementations of Omega
are available as part of the teTeX,
mikTeX, fpTeX and CMacTeX distributions
(see <a href="FAQ-TeXsystems.html">TeX systems</a>), as well as
in <a href="FAQ-CD.html">TeX Live</a>.
<p>A related project, <a href="FAQ-aleph.html">Aleph</a>, has merged a version of
Omega with the facilities of
<a href="FAQ-NTS.html">e-TeX</a>, as a pathfinder for potential future Omega
development.
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<dt><tt><i>CTAN distribution</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/omega.zip">systems/omega</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/omega.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/omega/">browse</a>) (not up-to-date: use the
version in your (La)TeX distribution)
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<p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=omega">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=omega</a>
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