[XeTeX] Question about polyglossia and babel

[Fr. Michael Gilmary]

Alexander wrote:

> Hello. What the best way to use commands "--- and others (works in
> babel with Russian language) in XeTeX with polyglossia?
>   


Hi Alexander:

If you use a preamble with something like this:


%\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}  %%  un-comment if you don't use math stuff
\usepackage{xltxtra}   %%%  this loads fontspec and xunicode also
\usepackage[nolocalmarks]{polyglossia}  %%%  [nolocalmarks] helps if you 
have custom headers
\setdefaultlanguage[variant=american]{english} 
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}


The last command ( \defaultfontfeatures ) is what enables fontspec to 
use --- and " as the standard (La)TeX does. However, with Xe(La)TeX, you 
can enter — and “ (or ” ) directly since that's part of the genius of XeTeX.

HTH.


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