On 30 November 2010 Hans Hagen wrote: > On 30-11-2010 12:09, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:49:32 -0700, Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org> > > wrote: > > > >> I was wondering, since luatex is not a direct replacement of pdftex, > >> omega or aleph, what is the point of having such primitives? Wouldn't it > >> be more cleaner of they are removed or is there any use for them? > > > > It may be that Yannis and other omega users still need them. luatex used > > be a direct replacement for aleph (well, almost), so that with little > > mods one could run an aleph file once upon a time.... > > The translation filters already have been removed a while ago so old > omega code will not run as expected. Also, the number of directions has > been limited (after we discussed it with John at eurotex).
Do you propose to drop \Omegaversion because you changed the Omega code and forgot to increase the version number? :) Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard.kotu...@web.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ dev-luatex mailing list dev-luatex@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-luatex
