<p>Hi,</p><p>I've just updated TeXLive 2008 and got the new polyglossia package (1.0.2).<br clear="all"></p><p>I could not compile your example. I get this error:</p><p></p><p><font face="courier new,monospace">! Missing { inserted.<br>
<to be read again><br> ÔÇ×<br>l.8 \begin{document}<br><br></font></p><p>Cheers!<br></p><p>Nicolas Vaughan<br></p>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Rolf Schmolling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rolf.schmolling@alumni.tu-berlin.de">rolf.schmolling@alumni.tu-berlin.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi,<br>
get same results (TeXLive 2008, all available updates via<br>
TeXLiveUtility, but don't know the polyglossia-version used, b.t.w.<br>
how would I find out- I am on a Mac with OSX 10.5.6)<br>
<br>
Greetings,<br>
<br>
Rolf<br>
<br>
<br>
Am 28.01.2009 um 17:20 schrieb Gerrit Glabbart:<br>
<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> There's a new feature in Polyglossia 1.0.2 that I'd really like to<br>
> use:<br>
><br>
> The "babelshorthands" option enables all the fine-tuning macros that<br>
> Babel offers for hyphenating in the German language. The manual<br>
> explicitly calls this option experimental, but I haven't been able to<br>
> use it at all so far.<br>
><br>
> Does this compile for anybody?:<br>
><br>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
><br>
> %%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode<br>
> %%!TEX TS-program = xelatex<br>
> \documentclass{minimal}<br>
><br>
> \usepackage{polyglossia}<br>
> \setdefaultlanguage[babelshorthands=true]{german}<br>
><br>
> \begin{document}<br>
><br>
> Hier könnte Ihre Nachricht stehen!<br>
><br>
> \end{document}<br>
><br>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
><br>
> What I get is this error:<br>
><br>
>> ! Missing { inserted.<br>
>> <to be read again><br>
>> „<br>
>> l.8 \begin{document}<br>
>><br>
>> ?<br>
>> Process aborted<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thoughts?<br>
><br>
> Gerrit.<br>
><br>
><br>
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