[XeTeX] polyglossia v.1.1.0 -- french problem

[François Charette]

Besides the comment already made by Apostolos, I'd like to clarify two
points:

1. Polyglossia v1.1.0 is not compatible with the xelatex format provided
with TeXLive 2008 or earlier, because it makes use of
\newXeTeXintercharclass which has been recently added to xelatex.ini.
This is available in TL2009, however.
2. Once you have TL2009, make sure to update polyglossia to version
1.1.0a, which I have released today. It includes a bugfix for french and
a few other languages.

Best,
FC


Rembrandt Wolpert wrote:
> Assembled Wisdom,
>
> what am I doing wrong here, and/or what is missing on my system (XeTeX
> 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.6 (Web2C 7.5.7) on OSX 10.5.8)?
>
> Minimal example:
>
> \documentclass[11pt,letter]{article}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \usepackage[english]{babel}
> \usepackage[babel]{csquotes}
> \usepackage{polyglossia}
> \setdefaultlanguage[variant=british]{english}
> \setotherlanguage[spelling=old]{german} %option ogerman gives error
> (Manual p. 4?)
> \setotherlanguage{french}
>
> \setmainfont{Courier}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> This is a silly example in a common font.
>
> \end{document}
>
> results in:
>
>  (/usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-french.ldf
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.23 \newXeTeXintercharclass
>                             \french at punctthin % ! ? ;
>
>
> When I remove the \setotherlanguage{french} (of all languages!!!), it
> compiles fine, and it also works if I switch back to my older version
> of polyglossia.
>
> Any hint(s) received most gratefully.
>
> Rembrandt
>
> -- 
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>