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¦----------------------------------------------¦
¦ ¦
- ¦ 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
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