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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/spanglish/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/spanglish/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2acfae40bc4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/spanglish/README @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ + +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. |