David wrote -- lots of relevant and wise things, inluding: > LaTeX needs a stable base (probably more stable than John and Yannis > can provide, as they understandably need to experiment with features as > they push Omega further in the direction they want to go) and even if > Omega was completely stable, one would have to consider whether it is > time to try to move the majority of latex users off tex-the-program. Quite true _but_, equally: Omega (and, I hypothesise, any TeX-derived automated typesetting system) needs something `on top' that is functionally similar to LaTeX. The larger group of omega developers needs this LaTeX-layer yesterday and, as I undertand it, that is a major reason why these issues are being raised here and now. They cannot delay so as to get it right. > (including latex maintainers:-) I assume that the irony here is the implication that this set of people may be nonempty? chris