Omega is an extension of the TeX typesetting system that uses Unicode, specifically UTF-16. It was authored by John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous after TeX development was frozen in 1991, primarily to enhance TeX's multilingual typesetting abilities. It includes a new 16-bit font encoding for TeX, as well as fonts (omlgc and omah) covering a wide range of alphabets.
Omega for LaTeX is invoked as lambda.
Extending Omega with the e-TeX extensions is a separate project, known as Aleph, and led by Giuseppe Bilotta. The LaTeX for Aleph is known as lamed.
At the 2004 TeX Users Group conference, Plaice announced his decision to split off a new project (not yet public), while Haralambous continues to work on Omega proper.
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