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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-spanglish/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-spanglish/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a227977ff25 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-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. |