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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2015-04-20 17:07:11 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2015-04-20 17:07:11 +0000 |
commit | bcbcc3e51b362ed0b59c134dd71fe97b7a52073c (patch) | |
tree | d56b188ac8373a367087463cbdd47d6444ba5b54 /Master/texmf-dist/doc | |
parent | 8ec654946636fcfe9ef338448239fd696f564d72 (diff) |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/spanglish/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/spanglish/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a227977ff25 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/spanglish/README @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ + +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. + +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, +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. + +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. + +Questions, comments? Drop me an email at jlrn77 at gmail dot com + +April 1, 2015. diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/spanglish/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/spanglish/README deleted file mode 100644 index 2acfae40bc4..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/spanglish/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ - -The \textsf{Spanglish} ``dialect'' is in fact a compromise between the use of the -Spanish language in writing and the default \LaTeX\ layout, -designed by and for US-Americans. -You may see it as a form of Spanish with a lot of English code switching ----or viceversa. -There are no mathematical features enabled, and there is -(probably less than) minimal Spanish language support for text, -activating Spanish hyphenation, captions, date, frenchspacing, -indentfirst, symbolic footnotes, uppercase roman numerals, -and a few shorthands. -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, -and a few extras to straighten the text a little in a Spanish layout. -So, in a sense, this ``language'' is a very stripped down or ultra-sloppy -version of the ``standard'' spanish.ldf, mostly as a fallback in case something -goes very awry with it. - -Questions, comments? Drop me an email at jlrn77 at gmail dot com - -December 28, 2010. |