omega (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

omega, iniomega, viromega – extended unicode TeX

SYNOPSIS

omega [options] [& format ] [ file | \ commands ]

DESCRIPTION

Run the Omega typesetter on file, usually creating file.dvi. If the file argument has no extension, ".tex" will be appended to it. 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 TeX 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 TeX.

Omega is experimental software.

OPTIONS

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