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¦ THE POLYGLOSSIA PACKAGE v1.0.1 ¦
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¦ Modern multilingual typesetting with XeLaTeX ¦
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This package for provides a complete Babel replacement for users of XeLaTeX.
This version includes support for 55 different languages.
Polyglossia makes it possible to automate the following tasks:
* Loading the appropriate hyphenation patterns.
* Setting the script and language tags of the current font (if possible and
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,
etc.).
* 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
calendars are supported).
* For languages that have their own numeration system, modifying the formatting
of numbers appropriately.
* 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.
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
xelatex polyglossia.dtx
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
and follow the instructions displayed.
CHANGES
1.0.1
* Improved documentation (added sections on font setup and numeration mappings)
* Improvements and bugfixes for English and German
* Bugfix in gloss-syriac.ldf (spurious space after \textsyriac{...})
* Extended the scope of \syriacabjad
* Added gloss-amharic.ldf (ported from ethiop.ldf in the package ethiop)
1.0
* Initial release on CTAN
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François Charette, July 2008
<firmicus ατ gmx δοτ net>
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