NAME
omega, iniomega, viromega - extended unicode TeX
SYNOPSIS
omega [options] [commands]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The com-
plete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in
the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation.
Omega is a version of the TeX program modified for multil-
ingual typesetting. It uses unicode, and has additional
primitives for (among other things) bidirectional typeset-
ting.
The iniomega and viromega commands are Omega's analogues to
the initex and virtex commands. In this installation, they
are symlinks to the omega executable.
Omega's command line options are similar to those of TeX.
Omega is experimental software.
OPTIONS
This version of Omega understands the following command line
options.
--fmt format
Use format as the name of the format to be used,
instead of the name by which Omega was called or a %&
line.
--help
Print help message and exit.
--ini
Be iniomega, for dumping formats; this is implicitly
true if the program is called as iniomega.
--interaction mode
Sets the interaction mode. The mode can be one of
batchmode, nonstopmode, scrollmode, and errorstopmode.
The meaning of these modes is the same as that of the
corresponding \commands.
--ipc
Send DVI output to a socket as well as the usual output
file. Whether this option is available is the choice
of the installer.
--ipc-start
As --ipc, and starts the server at the other end as
well. Whether this option is available is the choice
of the installer.
--kpathsea-debug bitmask
Sets path searching debugging flags according to the
bitmask. See the Kpathsea manual for details.
--maketex fmt
Enable mktexfmt, where fmt must be one of tex or tfm.
--no-maketex fmt
Disable mktexfmt, where fmt must be one of tex or tfm.
--output-comment string
Use string for the DVI file comment instead of the
date.
--progname name
Pretend to be program name. This affects both the for-
mat used and the search paths.
--shell-escape
Enable the \write18{command} construct. The command
can be any Bourne shell command. This construct is
normally disallowed for security reasons.
--version
Print version information and exit.
ENVIRONMENT
See the Kpathsearch library documentation (the `Path specif-
ications' node) for precise details of how the environment
variables are used. The kpsewhich utility can be used to
query the values of the variables.
One caveat: In most Omega formats, you cannot use ~ in a
filename you give directly to Omega, because ~ is an active
character, and hence is expanded, not taken as part of the
filename. Other programs, such as Metafont, do not have
this problem.
TEXMFOUTPUT
Normally, Omega puts its output files in the current
directory. If any output file cannot be opened there,
it tries to open it in the directory specified in the
environment variable TEXMFOUTPUT. There is no default
value for that variable. For example, if you say tex
paper and the current directory is not writable, if
TEXMFOUTPUT has the value /tmp, Omega attempts to
create /tmp/paper.log (and /tmp/paper.dvi, if any out-
put is produced.)
TEXINPUTS
Search path for \input and \openin files. This should
probably start with ``.'', so that user files are found
before system files. An empty path component will be
replaced with the paths defined in the texmf.cnf file.
For example, set TEXINPUTS to ".:/home/usr/tex:" to
prepend the current direcory and ``/home/user/tex'' to
the standard search path.
TEXEDIT
Command template for switching to editor. The default,
usually vi, is set when Omega is compiled.
FILES
The location of the files mentioned below varies from system
to system. Use the kpsewhich utility to find their loca-
tions.
omega.pool
Encoded text of Omega's messages.
*.fmt
Predigested Omega format (.fmt) files.
BUGS
This version of Omega fails to trap arithmetic overflow when
dimensions are added or subtracted. Cases where this occurs
are rare, but when it does the generated DVI file will be
invalid.
The DVI files produced by Omega may use extensions which
make them incompatible with most software designed to handle
DVI files. In order to print or preview them, you should
use odvips to generate a PostScript file.
Omega is experimental software. If you use it, subscribe to
the omega mailing list omega@ens.fr by sending a message
containing subscribe omega Your Name to listserv@ens.fr.
SEE ALSO
tex(1), mf(1), odvips(1), undump(1).
AUTHORS
The primary authors of Omega are John Plaice and Yannis
Haralambous.
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