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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.
+
+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.