Re: Round-off errors in metrics & fontinst/finst status...

[Yannis Haralambous <yannis@pobox.com>]

>When we all use Omega, the sun will rise every morning, no doubt. But
>you can't seriously expect eg Melissa to shift to it overnight, when
>its largely undocumented, largely unavailable, and largely untested?

I don't expect anyone to switch overnight although it would be a nice
surprise :-) 
Nevertheless I would like to give eg Melissa reasons to (at least)
consider switching one day. 

>its largely undocumented, largely unavailable, and largely untested?

In chronological order:
(a) we develop
(b) we test
(c) we make available
(d) we document
Now we are between (a) and (b), eventually (c) thanks to TeX Live 3 :-}



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