[XeTeX] babel or polyglossia?

[Benjamin Koppe]

Am 20.10.2009 um 14:04 schrieb Ulrike Fischer:

> Am Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:27:22 +0200 schrieb Benjamin Koppe:
>
>>> There is no urgend need to drop babel if you are using only german.
>>> (Things are different if you are using languages with other
>>> scripts).
>>
>> I write ancient Hebrew and Greek as well, but not larger texts, but
>> rather single words or sentences.
>
> babel with option hebrew + greek are both problematic with xelatex
> as they both use command that changes font encodings and this will
> conflict with the font setup of fontspec. Perhaps you can mix babel
> + polyglossia.
>
> Ulrike Fischer

I do not need babel for greek and hebrew, as I do not need more than  
the bare words in those languages, i.e. I am not writing for a hebrew  
speaking audience. So I do not need any babel settings for those, I  
just need bidi for Hebrew, and as xelatex is unicode, I just write...