Apostolos, > 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. how much evidence do you really have with respect to this? this is a serious question. unfortunately the majority of the owners of super fast PCs and unlimited memory have no use for even simple accents that would fit comfortably into a single 8bit encoding, eg T1, and a lot of those who could make good use of Omega currently are working with the machines of the seventies or not far further. the situation is better than it was 5 year ago but is it really as you claim? or will it be (soon?) frank