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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2015-06-20 13:18:15 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2015-06-20 13:18:15 +0000 |
commit | 10513972aa95c6fe782651f4cf6d841af07b32ee (patch) | |
tree | 9061cb7d0e738bdfe4250eeb40c23ec97be70663 /Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-spanglish | |
parent | 327fe7db70203b43deb33d496a9d2f6736032981 (diff) |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-spanglish/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-spanglish/README index a227977ff25..65b38855de1 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-spanglish/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-spanglish/README @@ -1,36 +1,31 @@ -The \textsf{Spanglish} ``language'' is a compromise between the use of the -Spanish language in writing and English mathematical support for LaTeX. -You may see it as a form of Spanish text with English mathematics ----or viceversa. +The \textsf{Spanglish} ``language'' is a compromise between the use of the +Spanish language in writing and English mathematics. -Therefore, there are no Spanish mathematical features supported (no accented -operators, no decimal comma), and there is (probably less than) minimal -Spanish language support for text, -activating Spanish hyphenation, captions, date, frenchspacing, indentfirst, -symbolic footnotes, lowercase roman numerals, -and a few shorthands to improve hyphenation. -All other typographic decisions are left to other macro packages -according to user's taste (or lack thereof). - -There is a conscious effort to make this ``language'' upwards compatible with -the ``standard'' Spanish language definition, so the shorthands implemented here -are but a very narrow subset of the standard Spanish language: -those strictly necessary to handle Spanish hyphenation properly, +Thus, there are no Spanish mathematical features supported (no accented +operators, no decimal comma), and there is (probably less than) minimal +Spanish language support for text. +There is a conscious effort to make this ``language'' upwards compatible with +the ``standard'' Spanish language definition, so the shorthands implemented here +are but a very narrow subset of the standard Spanish language: +those strictly necessary to handle Spanish hyphenation properly, and a few extras to straighten the text a little in a Spanish layout and support -plain ASCII input in LaTeX. -So, in a sense, this ``language'' is a very stripped down or ultra-sloppy -version of the ``standard'' spanish.ldf, conceived mostly as a fallback -or a ``poor man's'' Spanish. +plain ASCII input in LaTeX, like frenchspacing, indentfirst, +symbolic footnotes, lowercase roman numerals, +and a few shorthands to improve hyphenation. +All other typographic decisions are left to other macro packages +according to user's taste (or lack thereof). +So, in a sense, this ``language'' is a very stripped down or ultra-sloppy +version of the ``standard'' spanish.ldf, mainly as a fallback solution. -There are two attributes/modifiers enabled for this ``language'': asc (ASCII shorthands) -and nt (NTilde), designed to improve support of ASCII input. -ASC activates all shorthands convenient to input Spanish with plain ASCII -characters: this modifier supersedes the need to call the activeacute option -from Babel; -NT supports the input of Spanish \~n with the tilde ~n. -Both modifiers are provided for backwards compatibility, assuming that most -Spanish users actually choose a suitable 8bit input and font encoding. +There are two public attributes/modifiers enabled for this ``language'', +asc and tn, designed to improve support of ASCII input; +the former activates all shorthands necessary to input Spanish with plain ASCII +characters: this modifier supersedes the need to call the activeacute option +from Babel; +while the latter supports the input of Spanish \~n with the tilde ~n. +Both modifiers are provided for backwards compatibility, assuming that most +Spanish users actually choose a suitable 8bit font and input encoding. Questions, comments? Drop me an email at jlrn77 at gmail dot com |