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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/polyglossia/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/polyglossia/README index 999da001ff8..e00455f313e 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/polyglossia/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/polyglossia/README @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ ¦----------------------------------------------¦ ¦ ¦ - ¦ THE POLYGLOSSIA PACKAGE v1.1.0a ¦ + ¦ THE POLYGLOSSIA PACKAGE v1.1.1 ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ Modern multilingual typesetting with XeLaTeX ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦----------------------------------------------¦ This package for provides a complete Babel replacement for users of XeLaTeX. -This version includes support for 55 different languages. +This version includes support for 57 different languages. Polyglossia makes it possible to automate the following tasks: @@ -17,39 +17,79 @@ Polyglossia makes it possible to automate the following tasks: available), using the package fontspec. * Switching to a font assigned by the user to a particular script or language. * Adjusting some typographical conventions in function of the current language - (such as afterindent, frenchindent, spaces before or after punctuation marks, + (such as afterindent, frenchindent, spaces before or after punctuation marks, etc.). -* redefining the document strings (like “chapter”, “figure”, “bibliography”). +* Redefining the document strings (like “chapter”, “figure”, “bibliography”). * Adapting the formatting of dates (for non-gregorian calendars via external - packages bundled with polyglossia: currently the hebrew, islamic and farsi + packages bundled with polyglossia: currently the Hebrew, Islamic and Farsi calendars are supported). -* For languages that have their own numeration system, modifying the formatting +* For languages that have their own numeration system, modifying the formatting of numbers appropriately. -* Ensuring the proper directionality if the document contains languages +* Ensuring the proper directionality if the document contains languages written from right to left (via the package bidi, available separately). -Several features of Babel that do not make sense in the XeTeX world (like font -encodings, shorthands, etc) are not supported. For German however, several +Several features of Babel that do not make sense in the XeTeX world (like font +encodings, shorthands, etc) are not supported. For German however, several shorthands do make sense and can be activated with the language option babelshorthands=true. Polyglossia is distributed in the traditional way with *.dtx and *.ins files, and also comes with a TDS-conformant ready-to-unpack zip file. -To install from source (i.e. using polyglossia.dtx), run +To install from source (i.e. using polyglossia.dtx), run xelatex polyglossia.dtx -which will generate all files and produce the pdf documentation all at once. +which will generate all files and produce the pdf documentation all at once. Alternatively if you have the file polyglossia.ins run - xetex polyglossia.ins + xetex polyglossia.ins and follow the instructions displayed. + +BUGS + +Users are encouraged to report bugs on the github tracker: +http://github.com/fc7/polyglossia/issues + + CHANGES +1.1.1 + * Bugfix for French: explicit spaces before/after double punctuation + signs ("Par exemple : les grands « espaces » du Canada ! ") are + now replaced by the appropriate non-breaking spaces, as in Babel. + * Bugfix for font switching mechanism within Latin script + (pending a complete re-implementation in v1.2): + the font shape and series are no longer reset when switching language. + * New macros for non-Western decimal digits + (instead of fontmappings) + * New gloss files for Asturian, Lithuanian and Urdu + * hijrical.sty is now locale-aware: \hijritoday is + formatted differently in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Turkish + and Bahasa Indonesia. +---NB: the above five items were not part of v1.1.1-rc1 which was made available on github--- + * Enable babelshorthands for Dutch + * Add missing macro \allowhyphens + * Add global option babelshorthands + * Support Catalan geminated l + * Bugfix when declaring more than one pkg option + * Protect \reset@font + * Add missing requirement makecmds + * Bugfix for smallcaps in captions + * Typo for ccname in Hebrew + * Add option numerals to gloss-russian + * Provide newXeTeXintercharclass when undefined + * Bugfix for Russian alph + * Remove superfluous level of {} in def of markright + * Bugfix for \datecatalan + * Change hyphenmins for Sanskrit + +1.1.0b + * Modify hyphenmins for Sanskrit (Yves Codet) + * Bugfixes for Serbian and Bulgarian (Enrico Gregorio) 1.1.0a * Bugfix for interchar tokens 1.1.0 * Use \newXeTeXintercharclass (thanks to Enrico Gregorio) * Fixed implementation of shorthands for German (Babel code in file babelsh.def) - * Arabic (Khaled Hosny): + * Arabic (Khaled Hosny): - Fix abjad form for 3 and 5 and add option abjadjimnotail - bugfix for \arabicnumber - make Gregorian calender the default @@ -72,7 +112,7 @@ CHANGES * Fix frenchspacing for vietnamese * Other minor bugfixes -1.0.2 +1.0.2 This is mostly a bug fixes release. * Captions corrected in Hebrew, Russian and Spanish * Removed all \text<lang> wrappers within caption definitions @@ -87,8 +127,8 @@ CHANGES * Extended the scope of \syriacabjad * Added gloss-amharic.ldf (ported from ethiop.ldf in the package ethiop) -1.0 - * Initial release on CTAN +1.0 + * Initial release on CTAN ------------------------------ |