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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2015-06-20 13:18:15 +0000
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-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