[XeTeX] Announcement: POLYGLOSSIA v1.0

[François Charette]

Yves Codet wrote:
> Dear François,
>
> Here are a few remarks about this release.
>
> First a tiny detail. The Greek title of polyglossia.pdf should be 
> ΠΟΛΥΓΛΩΣΣΙΑ. The word πολυγλωσσία happens not to be attested (but is 
> quite well formed) in ancient Greek but the adjective πολύγλωσσος is, 
> with an omega since it derives from γλῶσσα.
:-(  :-(  shame! How in the world is an omicron showing up there?
Thanks. I'll fix this asap.

BTW πολυγλωσσία is indeed a standard word in modern Greek (see for 
instance http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/orban/index_el.htm)

> In testsanskrit.pdf conjuncts are not formed and the vowel i is 
> misplaced; for instance the second word should look like this: 
> पारिक्षितः (hoping your mail application will display this correctly). 
> Maybe it comes from the font you used. There is for instance this 
> font, which is excellent and free:
>
> http://www.omkarananda-ashram.org/Sanskrit/sanskrit2003.zip
>
> I always had good results with it. You might want to switch to it for 
> this test file; the output should be correct.
>
> I forgot to tell you that in testsanskrit.tex the following code is 
> now useless:
>
> \catcode"00A0=\active
> \def^^^^00a0{\char32\relax}
>
> It was suggested by Jonathan to display non-breaking spaces, but it 
> had already become useless with recent versions of XeTeX. Moreover 
> Polyglossia now adds spaces before punctuation marks. So you might 
> also want to delete all non-breaking spaces in testsanskrit.tex. You 
> will find below what the new versions could be.
>

Actually I had forgotten to delete testsanskrit.{tex,pdf}, since it is 
now superseded by test.{tex,pdf} (where the problems you raise should 
not appear, since it uses the font Sanskrit 2003). I'll remove it from 
CTAN with the next update.

Thanks again,
François