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# THE POLYGLOSSIA PACKAGE v1.49
## 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 over 70 different languages, some of which in different
regional or national varieties, or using a different writing system.

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 packages bidi and luabidi, available
  separately).

# LICENCE

Copyright (c) 2008-2010 François Charette, 2013 Élie Roux, 2011-2020 Arthur Reutenauer,
Copyright (c) 2019-2020 Bastien Roucariès, 2019-2020 Jürgen Spitzmüller

Except where otherwise noted, Polyglossia is placed under the terms of the MIT licence
(https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).

# BUGS

If you run into a bug, 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 the maintainer by email as it allows me
to track the issues and follow progress.