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omega, iniomega, viromega - extended unicode TeX
omega
[options] [&format] [file[.tex] | [\commands]]
Description
Run the Omega typesetter
on file, usually creating file.dvi. Instead of a filename, a set of Omega
commands can be given, the first of which must start with a backslash. With
a &format argument Omega uses a different set of precompiled commands,
contained in format.fmt; it is usually better to use the -fmt format option
instead.
Omega is a version of the program modified for multilingual typesetting.
It uses unicode, and has additional primitives for (among other things)
bidirectional typesetting.
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 .
Omega is experimental software.
This version of Omega
understands the following command line options.
- --oft format
- Use format as
the name of the format to be used, instead of the name by which Omega was
called or a %& line.
- -halt-on-error
- Exit with an error code when an error is
encountered during processing.
- --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.
- -output-directory directory
- directory instead of the current directory.
Look up input files in directory first, the along the normal search path.
- --parse-first-line
- If the first line of the main input file begins with %&
parse it to look for a dump name.
- --progname name
- Pretend to be program name.
This affects both the format used and the search paths.
- --recorder
- Enable
the filename recorder. This leaves a trace of the files opened for input
and output in a file with extension .ofl. (This option is always on.)
- --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.
See the Kpathsearch library
documentation (the ‘Path specifications’ 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 , 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 output 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.
The location of the files mentioned below varies from system to system.
Use the kpsewhich utility to find their locations.
- omega.pool
- Encoded text
of Omega’s messages.
- *.oft
- Predigested Omega format (.oft) files.
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation
for this version of Omega can be found in the info manual Web2C: A TeX
implementation.
This version of Omega implements a number of optional
extensions. In fact, many of these extensions conflict to a greater or lesser
extent with the definition of Omega. When such extensions are enabled,
the banner printed when Omega starts is changed to print Omegak instead
of Omega.
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, and
if you are an active user it is strongly recommended that you subscribe
to the Omega mailing list. Visit the Omega website http://omega.cse.unsw.edu.au
for information on how to subscribe.
tex(1)
, mf(1)
, odvips(1)
,
The primary authors of Omega are John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous.
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