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authorNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900
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+ ¦----------------------------------------------¦
+ ¦ ¦
+ ¦ THE POLYGLOSSIA PACKAGE v1.44 ¦
+ ¦ ¦
+ ¦ Modern multilingual typesetting ¦
+ ¦ with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX ¦
+ ¦ ¦
+ ¦----------------------------------------------¦
+
+This package provides an alternative to Babel for users of XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
+(with a few languages incompletely supported for the latter). This version
+includes support for 78 different languages.
+
+Polyglossia makes it possible to automate the following tasks:
+
+* Loading the appropriate hyphenation patterns.
+* Setting the script and language tags of the current font (if possible and
+ available), using the package fontspec.
+* Switching to a font assigned by the user to a particular script or language.
+* Adjusting some typographical conventions in function of the current language
+ (such as afterindent, frenchindent, spaces before or after punctuation marks,
+ etc.).
+* Redefining the document strings (like “chapter”, “figure”, “bibliography”).
+* Adapting the formatting of dates (for non-gregorian calendars via external
+ packages bundled with polyglossia: currently the Hebrew, Islamic and Farsi
+ calendars are supported).
+* For languages that have their own numeration system, modifying the formatting
+ of numbers appropriately.
+* Ensuring the proper directionality if the document contains languages
+ written from right to left (via the package bidi, available separately).
+
+LICENSE
+
+Copyright (c) 2008-2010 François Charette, 2013 Élie Roux, 2011-2019 Arthur Reutenauer
+
+Polyglossia is placed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public Licence
+(LPPL), either version 1.3, or, at your option, any later version. See
+LICENCE.txt for the text of the LPPL v1.3c, or
+http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for the latest version.
+
+This work has the LPPL maintenance status ‘maintained’. The current maintainer is Arthur Reutenauer.
+
+BUGS
+
+Polyglossia is full of bugs. If you run into one, or suspect you do, or you
+have a request or comment, please use the GitHub issue tracker:
+http://github.com/reutenauer/polyglossia/issues
+
+This is more efficient than contacting me by email as it allows me to track the
+issues and follow progress.