[tex-live] Re: free software, DFSG
Giuseppe Bilotta
bilotta78 at hotpop.com
Fri Jun 4 15:06:44 CEST 2004
David Kastrup wrote:
> I am working with all of the junk. Who do I ask for new stuff? I
> want John to get Omega into useful state. It is a waste of resources
> to have LaTeX, PDFTeX, eTeX and others all forked off from something
> which does not even deal with character sets in a sane way.
I would have never expected you to make the mistake to stack
LaTeX (a format) together with pdfTeX and eTeX (engines). This
is one of the main problems of Omega latests (post 1.15), its
being too format-centric.
> Guiseppe's Aleph is at least an attempt to get something workable
> again, but of course it misses PDFTeX functionality.
(Giuseppe)
If I could dedicate myself to Aleph full time, pdfTeX
functionality would be there. I can't, because I'm working on
my PhD. Sorry, you'll have to wait another couple of years.
--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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