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< [[TeX_Distributions]] | [[Encodings and Regimes]] | [[Aleph_Guide]] >
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Aleph (formerly known as e-Omega), maintained by Giuseppe Bilotta, is a project whose aim is to provide an extension to Knuth's TeX comprising both Omega 1.15 and e-TeX 2.1 features. Its main goals are stability, speed and power. It supports bidirectional typesetting and the usage of large fonts.
(In the future, [[pdfTeX]] may integrate those features as well.)
A similar project is [[XeTeX]], but it runs which was originally developed under Mac OS X onlybut is now available for Linux, as well as Windows as an unofficial build.
== Manual ==
* [[manual:aleph.pdf|Aleph]] (by Hans)
* [http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d97ost/omega-example.html Omega samples]
* [[Aleph_Guide|Aleph in ConTeXt: A Guide to the Perplexed]] on this wiki.
== Mailing list ==
# Get rid of the following directories from omega.zip (not really necessary but if you want to be efficient):<br><tt>texmf/eomega<br>texmf/omega/encodings</tt>
# Put files in texmf-local
# Compile the Aleph format: <texcode>mktexlsr<br>texexec --make en -tex=aleph</texcode> or for ConTeXt versions since May 2006, use instead: <texcode>mktexlsr<br>texexec --make en --aleph</texcode># Always start Aleph files with this preamble: '%tex=aleph output=dvipdfmx' or use the commandline <texcode> % tex=texexec --aleph --output=dvipdfmx</texcode>
Now test: texexec the following file (in utf-8). [[media:utf-omarab.tex|Download]]
Study <{{cmd>|def\ArabicUTF</cmd>}}: it uses raw Omega/Aleph commands, but see also [[source:m-gamma.tex|m-gamma]] (in the ConTeXt distro) for some higher-level commands
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