[XeTeX] Polyglossia and Spanish

[François Charette]

Yves Codet a écrit :
> Hello.
>
> I would like to ask a question, out of mere ignorance, about a detail  
> of Spanish formatting. 
> <...>
> "... el primer párrafo tras el título no se compone de forma  
> especial. Esto último implica que, a menos que se use el nuevo  
> spanish, conviene cargar el paquete indentfirst."
>
> Is the current behaviour of Polyglossia intended? Does it correspond  
> to another norm?
>   

Polyglossia does not follow any special norm at this stage. I just took 
what was in antomega and babel, leaving out much of the advanced stuff 
for later. So what we currently have in most gloss-files is a basic 
implementation with hyphenation, translation of strings, and sometimes 
some other more or less complex features.

BTW Javier Bezos has recently uploaded his new package spanish-babel on 
CTAN:
    http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/spanish/babel
Its documentation (incidentally formatted without any paragraph 
indentation) appears to be excellent and it also gives references to 
various manuals of Spanish typography, so you may want to have a look.

Adapting this package to polyglossia is indeed on my TODO list ;)

François