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-rw-r--r--macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/italian/README.txt11
-rw-r--r--macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/italian/italian.dtx359
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diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/italian/README.txt b/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/italian/README.txt
index 11598a8e32..cc96d0bdf0 100644
--- a/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/italian/README.txt
+++ b/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/italian/README.txt
@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
-The italian.dtx file has version number 1.4.01 dated 2019-01-05.
+The italian.dtx file has version number 1.4.03 dated 2019-11-16.
It is and update of a series fo files stating with the first one in 1990
Copyright (C) 1990-2019 Claudio Beccari
Maintainer Claudio Beccari
Contact: claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com
+This bundle containes the source file italian.dtx and this README.txt file. By running pdfLaTeX on thei italian.dtx file you obtain bith the documentation italian.pdf and the language description file italian.ldf.
+
Description
-This file contain the necessary and supplementary data for typesetting documents in Italiana with babel as the manager of the language management.
-It defines the infix words, the date in various formats. Optionally lets the user activate a number of shorthands to performe routine frequent tasks by means of the active character " that can be freely activated and deactivated. It defines an intelligent mathematical comma that recognises if it has to perform as a punctuation mark or as a decimal separator. Another user command activates or deactivates some commands to supply a minimum of performance that is fully provided by the siunitx package. The file allows using babel also when a document is typeset with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, even if, according to the author, polyglossia is preferred when typesetting documents in Italian, even if the gloss-italian.ldf for polyglossia provides less facilities than the ones available with babel.
+This file contain the necessary and supplementary data for typesetting documents in Italian with babel as the manager of the language management.
+It defines the infix words, the date in various formats. Optionally lets the user activate a number of shorthands to performe routine frequent tasks by means of the active character " that can be freely activated and deactivated.
+It defines an intelligent mathematical comma that recognises if it has to perform as a punctuation mark or as a decimal separator. Another user command activates or deactivates some commands to supply a minimum of the performance that is fully provided by the siunitx package. The file allows using babel also when a document is typeset with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, even if, according to the author, polyglossia is preferred when typesetting documents in Italian, in spite of the fact that gloss-italian.ldf for polyglossia provides less facilities than the ones available with babel.
+Supposedly since version 1.4.03 this file should be usable also with babel+uplatex
The documentation that is provided by running LaTeX on the italian.dtx file provides full documentation of every facility provided by the italian.ldf file.
+The documentation contains the licence clauses.
diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/italian/italian.dtx b/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/italian/italian.dtx
index a7a234fea1..6d5a088d6b 100644
--- a/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/italian/italian.dtx
+++ b/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/italian/italian.dtx
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ This file is a self unpacking one.
%</driver>
%<code>\ProvidesLanguage{italian}
%<*code>
- [2019/01/05 v.1.4.01 Italian support for the babel system]
+ [2019/11/16 v.1.4.03 Italian support for the babel system]
%</code>
%%
%% Please report errors to: claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ mail: \texttt{claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com}}}
%</driver>
%\fi
%
-% \CheckSum{755}
+% \CheckSum{753}
%
% \changes{italian-0.99}{1990/07/11}{First version, from english.doc}
% \changes{italian-1.0}{1991/04/23}{Modified for babel 3.0}
@@ -217,127 +217,130 @@ mail: \texttt{claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com}}}
% \end{table}
%
% The features of this language definition file are the following:
-% \begin{enumerate}
-% \item The Italian hyphenation is invoked, provided that the Italian
-% hyphenation pattern files were loaded when the specific format file
-% was built.
-% \item The language dependent infix words to be inserted by such
-% commands as |\chapter|, |\caption|, |\tableofcontents|,
-% etc. are redefined in accordance with the Italian
-% typographical practice.
-% \item Since Italian can be easily hyphenated and Italian practice
-% allows to break a word before the last two letters, hyphenation
-% parameters have been set accordingly, but a very high demerit
-% value has been set in order to avoid word breaks in the
-% penultimate line of a paragraph. Specifically the |\clubpenalty|,
-% and the |\widowpenalty| are set to rather high values and
-% |\finalhyphendemerits| is set to such a high value that
-% hyphenation is strongly discouraged between the last two lines
-% of a paragraph.
+% \begin{enumerate}
+% \item The Italian hyphenation is invoked, provided that the Italian
+% hyphenation pattern files were loaded when the specific format file
+% was built.
+% \item The language dependent infix words to be inserted by such
+% commands as |\chapter|, |\caption|, |\tableofcontents|,
+% etc. are redefined in accordance with the Italian
+% typographical practice.
+% \item Since Italian can be easily hyphenated and Italian practice
+% allows to break a word before the last two letters, hyphenation
+% parameters have been set accordingly, but a very high demerit
+% value has been set in order to avoid word breaks in the
+% penultimate line of a paragraph. Specifically the |\clubpenalty|,
+% and the |\widowpenalty| are set to rather high values and
+% |\finalhyphendemerits| is set to such a high value that
+% hyphenation is strongly discouraged between the last two lines
+% of a paragraph.
%^^A
%^^A Qui ci si potrebbero mettere le indicazioni per gli attributi e modificatori
%^^A
-% \item Some language specific shorthands have been defined so as to
-% allow etymological hyphenation, specifically |"| inserts a
-% break point at any word boundary that the typesetter chooses,
-% provided it is not followed by an accented letter (very unlikely
-% in Italian, where compulsory accents fall only on the last and
-% ending vowel of a word, but it may take place with compound words
-% that include foreign roots), and \verb="|= when the desired break
-% point falls before an accented letter. As you can read in
-% table~\ref{t:itshrtct}, these shorthands are available only if
-% they get activated with |\setactivedoublequote| after
-% loading \babel\ but before the |\begin{docuemnt}| statement. This
-% is done in order to preserve the user from package conflicts:
-% if s/he wants to use these facilities s/he must remember that
-% conflicts may arise unless active characters are deactivated;
-% this can be done with the \babel\ command |\shorthadsoff{"}|
-% (and reactivated with |\shorthandson{"}|) when its wise to do
-% so; conflicts have been reported with package \file{xypic} and
-% with \texttt{TikZ}, but the latter has its own library to
-% deactivate all active characters, not just the double quotes,
-% the only Italian language possibly activated character.
-% \item Some Italian compound words have a connecting short dash (a
-% hyphen sign) between them without any space between the component
-% words and the short dash; in this situation standard \LaTeX\ allows
-% a line break only just after the short dash; this may lead to
-% paragraphs with protruding lines or with ugly looking wide inter
-% word spaces. If a break point is desired in the second word, one
-% may use a |"| sign just after the short dash; but if a line break
-% is required in the first word, them the |"-| shorthand comes in handy;
-% pay attention though, that if you use an en-dash or an em-dash (both
-% should not be used in Italian as compound words connectors, but\dots)
-% then the |"-| shorthand might impeach the |--| or |---| ligatures, thus
-% producing an unacceptable appearance.
-% \item The shorthand |""| introduces the raised (English) opening
-% double quotes; this shorthand proves its usefulness when one
-% reminds that the Italian keyboard misses the backtick key, and
-% the backtick on a Windows based platform may be obtained only by
-% pressing the \texttt{Alt} key while keying the numerical code
-% 0096 in the numeric keypad; very, very annoying!
-% \item The shorthands |"<| and |">| insert the guillemets sometimes
-% used also in Italian typography; with the T1 font encoding
-% the ligatures |<<| and |>>| should insert such signs directly,
-% but not all the virtual fonts that claim to follow the T1 font
-% encoding actually contain the guillemets; with the OT1 encoding
-% the guillemets are not available and must be faked in some
-% way. By using the |"<| and |">| shorthands (even with the T1
-% encoding) the necessary tests are performed and in case the
-% guillemets are faked by means of the special LaTeX math symbols.
-% At the same time if OpenType fonts are being used with XeLaTeX
-% or LuaLaTeX, there are no problems with guillemets.
-% \item Three new specific commands |\unit|, |\ped|, and |\ap| are
-% introduced so as to enable the correct composition of technical
-% mathematics according to the ISO~31/XI recommendations.
-% The definition of |\unit| takes place only at ``begin document''
-% so that it is possible to verify if some other similar functionalities
-% have already been defined by other packages, such as |units.sty|
-% or |siunitx.sty|. In particular command |\unit| is deactivated by
-% default; the user can activate it by entering the command
-% |\setISOcompliance| after loading the \babel\ package and before the
-% |\begin{document}| statement. The above checks will enter into
-% action even if this ISO compliance is set, in order to avoid conflicts
-% with the above named packages. The |\ap| and |\ped| commands remain
-% available because up to now no specific conflicts have been reported.
-% \item Since in all languages different from English the decimal separator
-% according to the ISO regulations \emph{must} be a comma\footnote{Actually
-% the Bureau International des Pois et M\'esures allows also the point
-% as a decimal separator without mentioning any language, but recommends
-% to follow the national typographical traditions}; since
-% no language description file nor the \babel\ package itself provides
-% for this functionality, a not so simple intelligent comma definition is
-% provided such that at least in mathematics it behaves correctly.
-% There are other packages that provide a similar functionality, for
-% example |icomma| and |ncccomma|; |icomma|, apparently is not in conflict
-% with |dcolomn|, but requires a space after the comma all the times it
-% plays the r\^ole of a punctuation mark; |ncccomma|, checks if the next
-% token is a digit, but it repeated ten tests every time it meets a comma,
-% irrespective from what it is followed by. I believe that my solution
-% is better than that provided by both those packages; but I assume that
-% if the user loads on of those packages, it prefers to use that
-% functionality; In case one of those pachages is loaded, this module
-% excludes its intelligent comma functionality.
-% By default this functionality is turned \emph{off}, therefore the user
-% should turn it on by means of the |\IntelligentComma| command; it can
-% turn it off by means of |\NoIntelligentComma|. Please, read
-% subsection~\ref{ssec:comma} to see the various situations where a
-% mathematical comma may be used and how to overcome the few cases when
-% the macros of this file don't behave as expected. The section describes
-% also some limitations when some cong=flicting packages are being loaded.
-% \item In Italian legal documents it is common to tag list-items
-% with the old fashioned 21-letter Italian alphabet, that differs from
-% the Latin one by the omission of the letters `j', `k', `w',`x', and
-% `y'. This applies for both upper and lower case tags.
-% This feature is obtained by using the commands |\XXIletters| and
-% |\XXVIletters| that allow to switch back and forth
-% between 21- and 26-letter tagging.
-% \end{enumerate}
-%
-% For this language a few shorthands have been defined,
-% table~\ref{t:itshrtct}, some of which are introduced to overcome
-% certain limitations of the Italian keyboard; in
-% section~\ref{s:itkbd} there are other comments and hints in order
-% to overcome some other keyboard limitations.
+% \item Some language specific shorthands have been defined so as to
+% allow etymological hyphenation, specifically |"| inserts a
+% break point at any word boundary that the typesetter chooses,
+% provided it is not followed by an accented letter (very unlikely
+% in Italian, where compulsory accents fall only on the last and
+% ending vowel of a word, but it may take place with compound words
+% that include foreign roots), and \verb="|= when the desired break
+% point falls before an accented letter. As you can read in
+% table~\ref{t:itshrtct}, these shorthands are available only if
+% they get activated with |\setactivedoublequote| after
+% loading \babel\ but before the |\begin{docuemnt}| statement. This
+% is done in order to preserve the user from package conflicts:
+% if s/he wants to use these facilities s/he must remember that
+% conflicts may arise unless active characters are deactivated;
+% this can be done with the \babel\ command |\shorthadsoff{"}|
+% (and reactivated with |\shorthandson{"}|) when its wise to do
+% so; conflicts have been reported with package \file{xypic} and
+% with \texttt{TikZ}, but the latter has its own library to
+% deactivate all active characters, not just the double quotes,
+% the only Italian language possibly activated character.
+% \item Some Italian compound words have a connecting short dash (a
+% hyphen sign) between them without any space between the component
+% words and the short dash; in this situation standard \LaTeX\ allows
+% a line break only just after the short dash; this may lead to
+% paragraphs with protruding lines or with ugly looking wide inter
+% word spaces. If a break point is desired in the second word, one
+% may use a |"| sign just after the short dash; but if a line break
+% is required in the first word, them the |"-| shorthand comes in
+% handy; pay attention though, that if you use an en-dash or an
+% em-dash (both should not be used in Italian as compound words
+% connectors, but\dots) then the |"-| shorthand might impeach the |--|
+% or |---| ligatures, thus producing an unacceptable appearance.
+% \item The shorthand |""| introduces the raised (English) opening
+% double quotes; this shorthand proves its usefulness when one
+% reminds that the Italian keyboard misses the back tick key, and
+% the back tick on a Windows based platform may be obtained only by
+% pressing the \texttt{Alt} key while keying the numerical code
+% 0096 in the numeric keypad; very, very annoying!
+% \item The shorthands |"<| and |">| insert the guillemets sometimes
+% used also in Italian typography; with the T1 font encoding
+% the ligatures |<<| and |>>| should insert such signs directly,
+% but not all the virtual fonts that claim to follow the T1 font
+% encoding actually contain the guillemets; with the OT1 encoding
+% the guillemets are not available and must be faked in some
+% way. By using the |"<| and |">| shorthands (even with the T1
+% encoding) the necessary tests are performed and in case the
+% guillemets are faked by means of the special LaTeX math symbols.
+% At the same time if OpenType fonts are being used with XeLaTeX
+% or LuaLaTeX, there are no problems with guillemets.
+% \item Three new specific commands |\unit|, |\ped|, and |\ap| are
+% introduced so as to enable the correct composition of technical
+% mathematics according to the ISO~31/XI recommendations.
+% The definition of |\unit| takes place only at ``begin document''
+% so that it is possible to verify if some other similar
+% functionalities have already been defined by other packages, such
+% as |units.sty| or |siunitx.sty|. In particular command |\unit| is
+% deactivated by default; the user can activate it by entering the
+% command |\setISOcompliance| after loading the \babel\ package and
+% before the |\begin{document}| statement. The above checks will enter
+% into action even if this ISO compliance is set, in order to avoid
+% conflicts with the above named packages. The |\ap| and |\ped|
+% commands remain available because up to now no specific conflicts
+% have been reported.
+% \item Since in all languages different from English the decimal
+% separator according to the ISO regulations \emph{must} be a
+% comma\footnote{Actually the Bureau International des Pois et
+% M\'esures allows also the point as a decimal separator without
+% mentioning any language, but recommends to follow the national
+% typographical traditions.}; since no language description file nor
+% the \babel\ package itself provides for this functionality, a not so
+% simple intelligent comma definition is provided such that at least
+% in mathematics it behaves correctly.
+% There are other packages that provide a similar functionality, for
+% example |icomma| and |ncccomma|; |icomma|, apparently is not in
+% conflict with |dcolomn|, but requires a space after the comma all
+% the times it plays the r\^ole of a punctuation mark; |ncccomma|,
+% checks if the next token is a digit, but it repeats ten tests every
+% time it meets a comma, irrespective from what it is followed by.
+% I believe that my solution is better than that provided by both
+% those packages; but I assume that if the user loads one of those
+% packages, it prefers to use their functionality; in case one of those
+% packages is loaded, this module excludes its intelligent comma
+% functionality. By default this functionality is turned \emph{off},
+% therefore the user should turn it on by means of the
+% |\IntelligentComma| command; it can turn it off by means of
+% |\NoIntelligentComma|. Please, read subsection~\ref{ssec:comma} to
+% see the various situations where a mathematical comma may be used
+% and how to overcome the few cases when the macros of this file don't
+% behave as expected. The section describes also some limitations when
+% some conflicting packages are being loaded.
+% \item In Italian legal documents it is common to tag list-items
+% with the old fashioned 21-letter Italian alphabet, that differs from
+% the Latin one by the omission of the letters `j', `k', `w',`x', and
+% `y'. This applies for both upper and lower case tags.
+% This feature is obtained by using the commands |\XXIletters| and
+% |\XXVIletters| that allow to switch back and forth
+% between 21- and 26-letter tagging.
+% \end{enumerate}
+%
+% For this language a few shorthands have been defined,
+% table~\ref{t:itshrtct}, some of which are introduced to overcome
+% certain limitations of the Italian keyboard; in
+% section~\ref{s:itkbd} there are other comments and hints in order
+% to overcome some other keyboard limitations.
%
% \subsection*{Acknowlegements}
% It is my pleasure to acknowledge the contributions of Giovanni Dore,
@@ -359,7 +362,7 @@ mail: \texttt{claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com}}}
%
% \StopEventually{}%
%
-%\subsection{The commented code}
+%\section{The commented code}
% The macro |\LdfInit| takes care of preventing that this file is
% loaded more than once, checking the category code of the
% \texttt{@} sign, etc.
@@ -494,47 +497,64 @@ mail: \texttt{claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com}}}
% \changes{italian-1.2l}{1999/04/5}{Changed example ``begl'italiani''
% (obsolete spelling) with another, ``nell'altezza'', that behaves
% the same way}
+% \changes{italian 1.4.01}{2019-01-05}{Set the lccode of the apostrophe
+% that should be valid for both the pdflatex and the OpentType aware
+% typesetting engines xelatelx and lualatex.}
+% \changes{italian 1.4.03}{2019-11-16}{Adjust the lccode for the
+% apostrophe so as to work also with platex and uplatex. Thanks to
+% Hironobu Yamashita <h.y.acetaminophen@gmail.com> who spottes the
+% error and suggested the correction.}
+%
% In order to enable the hyphenation of words such as
% ``nell'altezza'' we give the \texttt{'} a non-zero lower case
-% code. When we do that \TeX\ finds the following hyphenation
+% code. When we do that, \TeX\ finds the following hyphenation
% points |nel-l'al-tez-za| instead of none. If this |italian.ldf| is
-% (improperly) used with |babel| when typesetting with |xelatex| or
+% used with |babel| when typesetting with |xelatex| or
% |lualatex| the apostrophe must receive a unicode code point.
-% Therefore we use the same test that is being used by the |iftex|
-% package in order to check if this option to |babel| is used while
-% typesetting with |pdflatex| or another typesetting engine.
+% Therefore we use a special test that was suggested by Hironobu
+% Yamashita\footnote{Thanks to Hironobu Yamashita
+% <h.y.acetaminophen@gmail.com>} if this |babel| language option
+% is used while using either |pdflatex| or a Unicode aware
+% typesetting engine.
% \begin{macrocode}
\addto\extrasitalian{%
-\lccode\string`'=`' \unless\ifcsname pdfmatch\endcsname
+\lccode\string`'=`' \ifcsname Umathcode\endcsname
\lccode\string"2019=\string"2019\fi}
\addto\noextrasitalian{%
-\lccode\string`'=0 \unless\ifcsname pdfmatch\endcsname
+\lccode\string`'=0 \ifcsname Umathcode\endcsname
\lccode\string"2019=0\fi}
% \end{macrocode}
-% Notice, though, that if you use |babel| when typesetting with |lualatex| or |xelatex| using the |fontspec| usual commands and options may not lead to their proper font alternative variants being used. Apparently the |\balefont| command is more performant in transmitting the proper information to |fontspec|. Of course |\babelfont| must be used after the |babel| package has been invoked; while there appears to be any loading precedence requirements when |fontspec| and |polyglossa| are used
+% Notice, though, that if you use |babel| when typesetting with |lualatex|
+% or |xelatex| using the |fontspec| usual commands and options may not
+% lead to their proper font alternative variants being used. Apparently
+% the |\babelfont| command is more performant in transmitting the proper
+% information to |fontspec|. Of course |\babelfont| must be used after the
+% |babel| package has been invoked; while there appears to be any loading
+% precedence requirements when |fontspec| and |polyglossia| are used
% \end{macro}
% \end{macro}
%
% \subsection{Traditionally labelled enumerate environment}
% \changes{italian-1.2v}{2010/01/02}{Support for traditional Italian}
-% In some traditional texts, especially of legal nature, enumerations labelled
-% with lower or upper case letters use the reduced Latin alphabet that omits
-% the so called ``non Italian letters'': j, k, w, x, and y.
-%
-% \changes{italian-1.2w}{2011/01/03}{Added switching mechanism between normal
-% and traditional enumeration labelling}
-% \changes{italian-1.3}{2013/09/27}{The |traditional| language attribute has
-% been dropped while the commands to switch back and forth from 21- to
-% 26-letter alphabet are retained}
+% In some traditional texts, especially of legal nature, enumerations
+% labelled with lower or upper case letters use the reduced Latin
+% alphabet that omits the so called ``non Italian letters'': j, k, w,
+% x, and y.
+%
+% \changes{italian-1.2w}{2011/01/03}{Added switching mechanism between
+% normal and traditional enumeration labelling}
+% \changes{italian-1.3}{2013/09/27}{The |traditional| language attribute
+% has been dropped while the commands to switch back and forth from
+% 21- to 26-letter alphabet are retained}
% \begin{macro}{\XXIletters}
% \begin{macro}{\XXVIletters}
% At the same time it is considered useful to have the possibility of
-% switching back and forth from the 21-letter tagging and the 26-letter one.
-% This requires a counter that keeps the switching status (0 for 21 letters
-% and 1 for 26 letters) and commands |\XXIletters| and |\XXVIletters|
-% to set the switch. Default is 26 letter tagging.
+% switching back and forth from the 21-letter tagging and the 26-letter
+% one. This requires a counter that keeps the switching status (0 for 21
+% letters and 1 for 26 letters) and commands |\XXIletters| and
+% |\XXVIletters| to set the switch. Default is 26 letter tagging.
% \begin{macrocode}
\newcount\it@lettering \it@lettering=\@ne
\newcommand*\XXIletters{\it@lettering=\z@}
@@ -546,8 +566,8 @@ mail: \texttt{claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com}}}
% \end{macrocode}
% \end{macro}
% \end{macro}
-% To make this feasible it's necessary to redefine the way the \LaTeX\ |\@alph|
-% and |\@Alph| work. Let's make the alternate definitions:
+% To make this feasible it's necessary to redefine the way the \LaTeX\
+% |\@alph| and |\@Alph| work. Let's make the alternate definitions:
% \begin{macrocode}
\def\it@alph#1{%
\ifcase\it@lettering
@@ -572,31 +592,32 @@ mail: \texttt{claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com}}}
% \end{macrocode}
%
% In order to have a complete description, the situation is as such:
-% \begin{enumerate}
-% \item If you want to always use the 21-letter item tagging, simply
-% use the |\XXIletters| declaration just after |\begin{document}|
-% and this setting remains global (provided, of course, that the
-% declaration is defined, i.e. that the Italian language is the
-% default one); in this way the setting is global while you use
-% the Italian language.
-% \item The |XXVIletter| command, issued outside any environment sets
-% the 26-letter item tagging in a global way; this setting is the default one.
-% \item If you specify |\XXIletters| just before entering an
-% environment that uses alphabetic tagging, this environment will
-% be tagged with the 21-letter alphabet, but this is a local setting,
-% because the letter tagging takes place only from the second level
-% of enumeration.
-% \item The declarations |\XXIletters| and |\XXVIletters| let you
-% switch back and forth between the two kinds of tagging, But this
-% kind of tagging, the 21-letter one, is meaningful only in Italian
-% and when you change language, letter tagging reverts to the 26-letter
-% one.
-% \end{enumerate}
+% \begin{enumerate}
+% \item If you want to always use the 21-letter item tagging, simply
+% use the |\XXIletters| declaration just after |\begin{document}|
+% and this setting remains global (provided, of course, that the
+% declaration is defined, i.e. that the Italian language is the
+% default one); in this way the setting is global while you use
+% the Italian language.
+% \item The |XXVIletter| command, issued outside any environment sets
+% the 26-letter item tagging in a global way; this setting is the
+% default one.
+% \item If you specify |\XXIletters| just before entering an
+% environment that uses alphabetic tagging, this environment will
+% be tagged with the 21-letter alphabet, but this is a local setting,
+% because the letter tagging takes place only from the second level
+% of enumeration.
+% \item The declarations |\XXIletters| and |\XXVIletters| let you
+% switch back and forth between the two kinds of tagging, But this
+% kind of tagging, the 21-letter one, is meaningful only in Italian
+% and when you change language, letter tagging reverts to the
+% 26-letter one.
+% \end{enumerate}
%
% \changes{italian-1.2m}{2000/01/05}{Support for etymological
% hyphenation}
%
-% \subsection{Support for etymological hyphenation}
+% \subsection{Support for etymological hyphenation}
% In Italian etymological hyphenation is desirable with
% technical terms, chemical names, and the like.
@@ -663,10 +684,10 @@ mail: \texttt{claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com}}}
% \changes{italian-1.3g}{2014/01/22}{The active double straight
% quote conflicts with other packages; set as an optional facility.}
% Instead of a boolean switch we use a private counter so as to check
-% at |\begin{document}| if this facility has to be activated. The default
-% value is zero; anything different from zero means that the facility
-% has to be activated; this is done with command |\setactivedoublequote|
-% to be issued before |\begin{document}|
+% at |\begin{document}| if this facility has to be activated. The
+% default value is zero; anything different from zero means that the
+% facility has to be activated; this is done with command
+% |\setactivedoublequote| to be issued before |\begin{document}|
%
% \begin{macrocode}
\newcount\it@doublequoteactive \it@doublequoteactive=\z@
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