Frank,

> Javier,

> Chris and I had a very fruitful and long session with Yannis and John earlier
> this year about the possibibility of basing a LaTeX successor solemnly on an
> Omega successor. Note the word "successor" being used twice.

Good news, I think. Formerly, in the discussion previous to the
meeting in Tsukuba, Omega was only *another* possibility, even in your
messages. (In other words, I didn't misinterpret the Robin's opinion
as the team's opinion, I just included a "deprecated" opinion
;-) ) Now Omega is the main candidate (if the suggested improvements
are fulfilled in a successor, of course) by far.

>> I think exactly the opposite -- Omega will give live to LaTeX while
>> "old" TeX will be a burden.
>
> i agree with you here, but only if Omega changes to a more "stable and final"
> product, something which, for good reasons, it currently isn't. I really hope
> that this is going to happen since IMHO Omega is the only successor of TeX
> that has a good chance to replace it.

Agreed.

Cheers
Javier