David Carlisle writes: > > - What are the platforms that can compile TeX but cannot compile > > Omega? > platforms for which you don't have the TeX source, or (probably) > if you only have a pascal compiler. Pretend I'm a Mac user and > tell me how to install an omega-only-latex on textures. if you cared, you'd be moving to the new Maccy/Unixy OS anyway, where web2c will compile. you just have to forget Textures. > > - Will things get harder or easier with Omega? > If it isn't easier to handle unicode in Omega than in standard TeX then > something is radically wrong with the world. I have news for you, David.... the world has a lot wrong with it! By the way, let's bear in mind that after 4 years of co-existence, there is no sign at all of an Omega/pdfTeX merge. No-one has stepped forward to claim they will even try it. Since I'd regard that as a moderately easy task (in theory), it suggests to me that the starting point (the ghashly mess called the Pascally Web code) is inimical to future work. I know Thanh does not enjoy hacking it; I know John Plaice hates it; yet here we still are. In theory, of course, we have all the work put into NTS, but the assumption has to be that NTS is black hole. We all *talk*, but who amongst us is really able to put serious coding time into all this? (I exclude, for instance, Javier working on OmegaLaTeX). Sebastian