[XeTeX] polyglossia on svn repo

[François Charette]

Hello everyone,

The polyglossia package has recently been uploaded on the xetex svn 
server. See

    http://scripts.sil.org/svn-view/xetex/TRUNK/texmf/

The files are located under
    tex/xelatex/polyglossia/*
    fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping/{arabic,farsi}digits.*
    doc/xelatex/polyglossia/*

For your convenience there is also a snapshot available at the URL I 
provided a few weeks ago:
    http://ankabut.net/xetex/polyglossia.zip
but I cannot guarantee that it will always contain the latest code. (I 
should write a script to automate that though…)

Currently there are LDFs (language definition files) for all languages 
supported by Babel and Antomega, and also for Arabic, Farsi, Syriac, and 
Sanskrit (I may forget some). Thai is forthcoming (based on the new 
thai-latex for Babel). Note that some of these LDFs are still very basic 
or even buggy, while others provide more advanced features. As he 
himself mentioned in a previous thread, Apostolos is going to take care 
of improving gloss-greek.ldf.

Note that the current version of polyglossia.sty requires Philipp 
Lehman's etoolbox.sty which is available on CTAN. For portability 
reasons this requirement might be removed in a future version. I am not 
sure yet...

As always, contributions, corrections and suggestions from users are 
most welcome! (NB: You can use the file gloss-template.ldf to write your 
own). Many major languages (and countless others) are still missing ;)  
It would be nice for example to have at least some of the features of 
the zhspacing bundle implemented in a still-to-be-written 
gloss-chinese.ldf …

I intend to write basic documentation as soon as time permits (whatever 
that means).

Best,
François