[tex-live] Re: aleph for TL

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Wed Apr 14 09:03:53 CEST 2004


At 15:33 13/04/2004, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>Hans Hagen wrote:
> > At 17:21 27/03/2004, Thomas Esser wrote:
> > > > Ps. I hope that's nothing wrong that lambda uses now aleph engine
> > > > instead of omega.
> > >
> > >The LaTeX team has requested to use e-TeX aware engines for LaTeX, so
> > >I think this is politically correct until Omega officially supports the
> > >e-TeX primitives.
> >
> > ... and is stable enough to be of use for more than a few pages; i don't
> > know what lambda is supposed to to but i assume that it's not depending on
> > new (undocumented) features in omega > 1.15, so i think that aleph is a
> > good choice here; also, i expect more testing by and feedback from that
> > branch of omega
>
>The only thing that can break compilation is usage of omega.sty (the
>omega package for latex/lambda), since it makes use of the
>\nextfakemath primitive which is defined in Omega 1.23 but not in
>Omega 1.15 or Aleph.

so, why not add that primitive and equal it to \relax?

Hans



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