[XeTeX] Question about polyglossia and babel

Vladimir Lomov lomov.vl at gmail.com
Mon May 31 12:18:45 CEST 2010


** Alexander [2010-05-29 10:57:05 +0900]:

> Hello. What the best way to use commands "--- and others (works in
> babel with Russian language) in XeTeX with polyglossia?
xe(la)tex is Unicode-aware tex engine so you don't
need any special package or command to insert dashes. So just insert
them into document which you should edit in utf8 encoding (e.g.
texworks, vim or emacs).


P.S.
There is a problem how to process old (read: written for babel)
documents using xelatex. The answer would be: use 'babelshorthands' but
Russian doesn't have shorthands support.

If you in hurry you could take
'polyglossia.sty' and 'gloss-russian.ldf' from github.com
(github.com/vp1981/polyglossia, use branch 'alph_unif' and take these
files from there) and put them into directory with such documents.

---
WBW, Vladimir Lomov

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