texlive[72520] Master/texmf-dist: babel-italian (10oct24)
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Revision: 72520
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Author: karl
Date: 2024-10-10 21:43:23 +0200 (Thu, 10 Oct 2024)
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babel-italian (10oct24)
Modified Paths:
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trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-italian/README.txt
trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-italian/italian.pdf
trunk/Master/texmf-dist/source/generic/babel-italian/italian.dtx
trunk/Master/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel-italian/italian.ldf
Modified: trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-italian/README.txt
===================================================================
--- trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-italian/README.txt 2024-10-10 19:43:08 UTC (rev 72519)
+++ trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-italian/README.txt 2024-10-10 19:43:23 UTC (rev 72520)
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-The italian.dtx file has version number 1.5.00 dated 2024-01-03.
-It is and update of a series fo files starting with the first one in 1990
+The italian.dtx file has version number 1.5.01 dated 2024-10-10.
+It is and update of a series of files starting with the first one
+in 1990
Copyright (C) 1990-2024 Claudio Beccari
Maintainer Claudio Beccari
Contact: claudio.beccari at gmail.com
@@ -10,7 +11,7 @@
description file italian.ldf.
Description
-This file contain the necessary and supplementary data for
+This file contains the necessary and supplementary data for
typesetting documents in Italian with babel as the language
manager.
It defines the infix words, the date in various formats.
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@
numerical string.
Another user command activates or deactivates some commands
to supply a minimum of the performance that is fully provided
-by the siunitx and similar packages. The file allows using
+by the siunitx package and similar ones. The file allows using
babel also when a document is typeset with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.
The documentation that is provided by running LaTeX on the
Modified: trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-italian/italian.pdf
===================================================================
(Binary files differ)
Modified: trunk/Master/texmf-dist/source/generic/babel-italian/italian.dtx
===================================================================
--- trunk/Master/texmf-dist/source/generic/babel-italian/italian.dtx 2024-10-10 19:43:08 UTC (rev 72519)
+++ trunk/Master/texmf-dist/source/generic/babel-italian/italian.dtx 2024-10-10 19:43:23 UTC (rev 72520)
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
%</driver>
%<code>\ProvidesLanguage{italian}
%<*code>
- [2024/01/03 v.1.5.00 Italian support for the babel system]
+ [2024/10/10 v.1.5.01 Italian support for the babel system]
%</code>
%%
%% Please report errors to: claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
%</driver>
%\fi
%
-% \CheckSum{761}
+% \CheckSum{762}
%
% \changes{italian-0.99}{1990/07/11}{First version, from english.doc}
% \changes{italian-1.0}{1991/04/23}{Modified for babel 3.0}
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@
% group}
% \changes{italian 1.4.08}{2024-01-03}{Modified intelligent
% comma}
+% \changes{itlian 1.5.01}{2024-10-10}{Modified intelligent comma so as to eliminate the |\ ?| macro}
%
% \section{The Italian language}
% \textbf{\color{red}Important notice}: This language
@@ -364,7 +365,7 @@
% similar functionality, for example |icomma|, |ncccomma|
% and |decimalcomma|; |icomma|, apparently is not in
% conflict with |dcolumn|, but requires a space after the
-% comma all the times it plays the r\^ole of a punctuation
+% comma all the times it plays the rôle of a punctuation
% mark; |ncccomma| and |decimal comma| check if the next
% token is a digit, but they repeat up to ten tests every
% time they meet a comma, irrespective from what it is
@@ -396,7 +397,7 @@
% texts contain some math, the |\IntelligentComma| must be
% deactivated; an \texttt{english} environment (not available
% in |babel| but available in |polyglossia|, although without
-% the functionalities connected with the English math
+% the functionalities connected with English math
% typesetting) is defined so that, besides locally setting
% the English language, issues a |\NoIntelligentComma|
% command; nevertheless users are still responsible to use
@@ -1150,8 +1151,8 @@
% document, but they will be possibly defined only at the end of
% the preamble when it will be known if the |dcolumn| package
% has been loaded. We do the same action if packages |icomma|.
-% |ncccomma| or |decimalcomma| have been loaded, since this
-% assumes that the user wants to use their functionality, not
+% |ncccomma| or |decimalcomma| have been loaded, since it is
+% assumed that the user wants to use their functionality, not
% the functionality defined in this file.
%
% We need a command to set the comma as an active character only
@@ -1202,18 +1203,20 @@
% \changes{italian-1.3a}{2013/10/02}{Corrected the bug of the
% intelligent comma when used within the AMS alignment
% environments}
-%
-% Math comma activation is done only after the preamble has been
-% completed, that is after the |\begin{document}| statement has
-% been completely executed. Now we must give a definition to the
-% active comma.
+% \changes{italian 1.5.01}{2014/10/10}{Eliminated the |\ ?| macro}
+
+% Math comma activation may be done only after the preamble has
+% been completed, that is after the |\begin{document}| statement
+% has been completely executed. Now we must give a definition to
+% the active comma.
% \begin{macrocode}
-{\catcode`,\active \gdef,{\futurelet\tempB\?}}
+{\catcode`,\active \protected\gdef,%
+ {\futurelet\tempB\it at tempcomma}}
% \end{macrocode}
% In facts the above macro lets a temporary control sequence
% |\tempB| be an alias of the token that immediately follows
% |\?|; |\tempB| then behaves as an implicit character if that
-% token is a single character, even a space (category cod~10)
+% token is a single token, even a space (category code~10)
% or a closed brace {category code~3}, or an alias of a generic
% control sequence otherwise.
%
@@ -1239,9 +1242,11 @@
% by an implicit digit, by a macro defined to be a digit, by a
% macro that is not defined to be a digit, by a special
% character (for example a closed brace, an alignment command,
-% et cetera); therefore it is necessary to distinguish all these
-% situations; remember that an implicit digit cannot be used as a real digit, and a macro gets expanded when used within any
-% |\if| clause, except |\ifx|, or is prefixed with |\noexpand|.
+% and so on); therefore it is necessary to distinguish all these
+% situations; remember that an implicit digit cannot be used as
+% a real digit, and a macro gets expanded when used within any
+% |\if| clause, except |\ifx|, or if it is prefixed with
+% |\noexpand|.
% The tests that are going to be made hereafter are therefore
% of different kinds, according to this scheme:
% \begin{itemize}
@@ -1258,7 +1263,7 @@
% \item
% we have to check if the next token is |bar| or |\overline|
% (or a |\periodo|, a new command added by this language
-% description file)); we assume that these commands are used
+% description file); we assume that these commands are used
% to mark the digits of the periodic component of the
% fractional part of a rational number.
% May be this assumption is not always correct, but it should
@@ -1276,9 +1281,9 @@
% \item
% if that |\tempB| is a macro, we have to test its
% nature of a digit by testing if it represents one of the
-% ten digits; of course it we strongly discourage to let
-% some control sequences be an aliase of one or more
-% digits;
+% ten digits; of course we strongly discourage to let
+% some control sequences be an alias of one or more
+% digits;
% \item
% in all other cases, as it has category code~12, it is an
% analphabetic character.
@@ -1287,7 +1292,8 @@
% otherwise the |\tempB| is a special character or a command;
% \item
% a test is made to see if it is a macro; in this case we
-% check if has been defined to be a digit,
+% check if has been defined to be a digit (discouraged, as
+% remarked above);
% \item
% if it is not a macro, it must be some other kind of token
% for example another special character.
@@ -1312,7 +1318,8 @@
% balanced brace comma group |{,}| but we discourage it for
% new documents; in any case such a group works fine if the
% intelligent comma is not active, for example because a
-% stretch of text in a different language is being typeset.
+% stretch of text in a different language (except English)
+% is being typeset.
%
% So first we test if the comma must act intelligently;
% we have to perform delicate tests; as a last resource this
@@ -1328,6 +1335,7 @@
% the sense that they don't leave any trace after execution:
% the third argument code is executed if the test is true,
% and the fourth one if it is false.
+%
% Notice that the tests with macros |\periodo|, |\bar|, and
% |\overline| are used to verify if the fractional part after
% the comma sets a line over its periodic component; users
@@ -1343,18 +1351,20 @@
% contain the six digits in the proper order, and use such
% macros instead of the digit string, saving themselves
% possible typos; everybody knows that typos are not allowed
-% in math. But these macros should be used as arguments of
-% |periodo|, otherwise the decimal mark test fails.
+% in math. In any case these macros should be used as
+% arguments of |periodo|, otherwise the decimal mark test
+% fails: i.e., don't enter |$1/7=0,\oneoverseven$| but
+% |$1/7=0,\periodo{\oneoverseven}$|.
%
-% The |ifdigit| macros that is defined hereafter is a test
+% The |\ifdigit| macros that is defined hereafter is a test
% made by using a \LaTeX\ kernel internal procedure that
% compares its only argument with one of the ten digits at a
% time; if the argument is a digit choses the decimal comma,
% otherwise the punctuation one; the test is similar but not
-% identical to the one performed by the |nccomma| package; on
-% the opposite the test against a space is performed with a
-% test similar but not identical to the one done by the
-% |icomma| package; all other tests are specific of this
+% identical to the one performed by the |ncccomma| package;
+% on the opposite the test against a space is performed with
+% a test similar but not identical to the one done by the
+% |icomma| package; all other tests are specific to this
% package.
% \begin{macrocode}
@@ -1365,7 +1375,7 @@
\if\@Cifra #1\relax\def\tempC{\virgoladecimale}%
\@break at tfor\fi}\tempC}
-\DeclareRobustCommand*\?{%
+\DeclareRobustCommand*\it at tempcomma{%
\ifx\tempB\@sptoken
\expandafter\@firstoftwo
\else
@@ -1414,21 +1424,21 @@
%
% In particular this macro starts testing if it is an alias for
% a space token (category 10); then tests if it is an alias
-% of |\periodo|, or |\bar| or |\overline| and if it is the
-% decimal separator should be a decimal comma (see below);
+% of |\periodo|, or |\bar| or |\overline| and if it is, the
+% decimal mark should be a decimal comma (see below);
% otherwise other tests are carried on. This macro then tests if
% the argument has category code~12, i.e.\ “other character”,
% not a letter, nor other special signs, as, for example,~|&|.
% In case the category code is not~12, the comma must act as a
% punctuation mark; but if its category cose is~12, it might be
-% a digit, or another character, for example an asterisk; so we
-% have to test its digit nature; the simplest way that we found
-% to test if a token is a digit, is to test if its ASCII code
-% lays within the range delimited by the ASCII codes
-% of~`0' (zero) and~`9'.
+% a digit, or another character of category code~12, for example
+% an asterisk; so we have to test its digit nature; the simplest
+% way that we found to test if a token is a digit, is to test if
+% its char code lays within the range delimited by the char
+% codes of~`0' (zero) and~`9'.
%
% The typesetting engines give the back tick, |`|, the property
-% that when a number is required, it yields the ASCII code if
+% that when a number is required, it yields the char code if
% the following token is an explicit character or a macro
% argument number; this is why we can't use the temporary
% implicit token we just tested, but we must examine the first
@@ -1455,10 +1465,10 @@
% \end{macrocode}
% The service macros |\ifcsundef|, |\ifnumless|, and
% |\ifnumgreater| are provided by the |etoolbox| package, that
-% shall be read at most at the end of the |babel| package
+% shall be input at most at the end of the |babel| package
% processing; therefore we must delay the code at “end preamble”
% time, since only at that time it will be known if the main
-% language is Italian, or any other one.
+% language is Italian, or another one.
%
% This intelligent comma definition is pretty intelligent, but
% it requires some kind of information from the context; this
@@ -1517,7 +1527,7 @@
%
% In the following sections we describe some features that
% nowadays should be considered totally obsolete. We speak about
-% OT! encoded fonts (who uses them today?); about the
+% OT1 encoded fonts (who uses them today?); about the
% limitations of the Italian keyboard, that with modern
% operating systems may be overridden easily; with French double
% quotes, that are being used also in Italian, although without
@@ -1526,7 +1536,8 @@
% description file initial versions are more than 30 years old,
% and in this long stretch of time many legacy documents were
% created; the following sections describe what had to be done
-% years ago and the information may be useful to upgrade those documents
+% years ago and the information may be useful to upgrade those
+% documents
%
% \subsection*{Accents}\label{s:itkbd}
% Most of the other language description files introduce a
@@ -1543,19 +1554,21 @@
% \`i, \`o, \`u, bot no \emph{uppercase} accented vowels are
% directly available from the keyboard; the keyboard lacks
% also the tie |~| (tilde) key, while the curly braces require
-% pressing three keys simultaneously.
+% pressing three keys simultaneously. On the opposite the
+% Italian keyboard has a key for the ‘ç’ letter that is not used
+% in Italian.
%
% The best solution Italians have found so far is to use a smart
-% editor that accepts shorthand definitions such that, for
+% editor that accepts shorthand definitions such that: for
% example, by striking |"(| one gets directly |{| on the screen
-% and the same sign is saved into the \file{.tex} file; the same
+% and the same sign is saved into the \file{.tex} file. The same
% smart editor should be capable of translating the accented
% characters into the standard \TeX\ sequences when writing a
% file to disk (for the sake of file portability), and to
% transform the standard \TeX\ sequences into the corresponding
-% signs when loading a \file{.tex} file from disk to memory.
-% Such smart editors do exist and can be downloaded from the
-% \textsc{ctan} archives.
+% signs when loading a \file{.tex} file from disk to working
+% memory. Some such smart editors do exist and can be downloaded
+% from the \textsc{ctan} archives.
%
% \changes{italian-1.2p}{2002/07/10}{Removed redefinition of
% \cs{add at acc} since its functionality has been introduced
@@ -1578,10 +1591,10 @@
% \subsection*{\emph{Caporali} or French double quotes}
% Although the T1 font encoding ligatures solve the problem,
% there are some circumstances where even the T1 font encoding
-% cannot be used, either because the authors\slash typesetters
-% want to use the old deprecated OT1 encoding, or because they
-% use a font set that does not comply completely with the T1
-% font encoding; some virtual fonts, for example, are supposed
+% cannot be used, either because users prefer employing the old
+% deprecated OT1 encoding, or because they selected a font set
+% that does not completely comply with the T1 font encoding;
+% some virtual fonts, for example, are supposed
% to implement the double Cork font encoding but actually they
% miss some glyphs; one such virtual font set was given by the
% \texttt{ae} virtual fonts, because they were supposed to
@@ -1589,8 +1602,9 @@
% that mapped the OT1 encoded |CM| fonts to a T1 font scheme;
% Such fonts are not distributed any more with any \TeX\ system
% installation, therefore if some vintage source file uses them
-% the correction is to replace them by the vector Latin Modern
-% ones.
+% the correction is to replace them by the Latin Modern ones,
+% that are vector fonts and cannot be used with the plain
+% |latex| engine.
%
% The type~1 PostScript version of the |CM| fonts do exist,
% therefore one believes to be able of using them with pdfLaTeX;
@@ -1599,9 +1613,9 @@
% \emph{caporali}) do not exist in any OT1 encoded \texttt{cm}
% Latin font, their glyphs must be substituted with something
% else that fakes them. Again the best solution is to correct
-% the preamble of such vintage source file by replacing the call
-% to those old not available fonts with the vector Latin Modern
-% fonts.
+% the preamble of such vintage source files by replacing the
+% call to those old not available fonts with the vector Latin
+% Modern fonts.
%
% \changes{italian-1.2q}{2005/02/05}{Redefined the caporali
% machinery so as to avoid incompatibilities with the slides
@@ -1681,7 +1695,7 @@
% \end{macrocode}
% Such macros make available the internal commands |\it at ocap|
% and |\it at ccap|; they become available when users specify in
-% their preambles either the |\LteSymbCaporali| or in a personal
+% their preambles either the |\LtxSymbCaporali| or in a personal
% \texttt{.sty} file the |\T at unoCaporali| command. The former
% gets the real glyphs from the \texttt{lasy} font and deletes
% any space after the open guillemets and before the closed
@@ -1718,9 +1732,11 @@
% \begin{macrocode}
\def\CaporaliFrom#1#2#3#4{%
\DeclareFontEncoding{#1}{}{}%
+%
\DeclareTextCommand{\it at ocap}{T1}{%
{\fontencoding{#1}\fontfamily{#2}%
\selectfont\char#3\ignorespaces}}%
+%
\DeclareTextCommand{\it at ccap}{T1}{\@kilglue
{\fontencoding{#1}\fontfamily{#2}\selectfont\char#4}}%
}
Modified: trunk/Master/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel-italian/italian.ldf
===================================================================
--- trunk/Master/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel-italian/italian.ldf 2024-10-10 19:43:08 UTC (rev 72519)
+++ trunk/Master/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel-italian/italian.ldf 2024-10-10 19:43:23 UTC (rev 72520)
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
%%
%% License information appended.
\ProvidesLanguage{italian}
- [2024/01/03 v.1.5.00 Italian support for the babel system]
+ [2024/10/10 v.1.5.01 Italian support for the babel system]
%%
%% Please report errors to: claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com
%%
@@ -195,8 +195,10 @@
}}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\virgoladecimale}{\mathord}{letters}{"3B}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\virgola}{\mathpunct}{letters}{"3B}
-{\catcode`,\active \gdef,{\futurelet\tempB\?}}
+{\catcode`,\active \protected\gdef,%
+ {\futurelet\tempB\it at tempcomma}}
+
\DeclareRobustCommand*\periodo[1]{\overline{#1}}
\newcommand\ifdigit[1]{\def\tempC{\virgola}%
@@ -204,7 +206,7 @@
\if\@Cifra #1\relax\def\tempC{\virgoladecimale}%
\@break at tfor\fi}\tempC}
-\DeclareRobustCommand*\?{%
+\DeclareRobustCommand*\it at tempcomma{%
\ifx\tempB\@sptoken
\expandafter\@firstoftwo
\else
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