The build infrastructure continues to be maintained, and aleph sources
and binaries included in TeX Live.  This is primarily so that existing
omega and aleph documents can still be processed.  No significant new
features have been added to Aleph for some years.

20040322: RC2 released.
          * TeX 3.141592
          * no more dependency on the Omega 1.15 source tree
          * rename e-Omega to Aleph
          * Fix: crash when \overfullrule > 0pt
          * Fix: \charit gives wrong result
          * Fix: text is offset when typesetting non-TLT text
          * Fix: leaders crashing or stalling the program
          * Add: \boxdir to retrieve or set the direction
                 of a box
          * Add: \pagerighoffset, \pagebottomoffset to set the
                 right and bottom margin in non-TLT text
          * Add: a big set of commands to retrieve version
                info:
for each feature-set (Omega, eTeX, Aleph), the commands are:

\<featureset>Version    the expansion is a list of character
tokens of category 12 (other) representing the featureset
version number; (1.15 for \OmegaVersion, 0 (RC2) for
\AlephVersion, 2.1 for \eTeXVersion) (inherited from Omega)

\<featureset>revision   the expansion is a list of character
tokens of category 12 (other) representing the featureset
minor version number; (.15 for \Omegarevision, (RC2) for
\Alephrevision, .1 for \eTeXrevion) (inherited from e-TeX)

\<featureset>version    an integer value representing the
featureset major version number (1 for \Omegaversion, 0 for
\Alephversion, 2 for \eTeXversion) (inherited from e-TeX)

\<featureset>minorversion   an integer value representing the
featureset minor version number (15 for \Omegaminorversion, 0
for \Alephminorversion, 1 for \eTeXminorversion) (new)

                
20030524: RC1 released.
          * Fix: the "overfull box" crash bug

20030106: RC0 released.
          This release simply provides a binary providing
          both Omega 1.15 features (all but the XML/SGML ones)
          and e-TeX 2.1 features.
