[XeTeX] Polyglossia "broken"?

[Zdenek Wagner]

2011/9/21 Arash Zeini <arash.zeini at gmail.com>:
> On Wednesday 21 September 2011, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote:
>> fontspec loads xunicode and xunicode has been updated recently. What
>> happens if you load exaccent before polyglossia?
>
> Nothing. I get the same error messages as before.
>
What packages are loaded before exaccent? Suppose that both packages
foo and bar define macro \something. If you load

\usepackage{foo}
\usepackage{bar}

you will get an error in bar. If you change the order, you will get
the same error, but now in foo. This will inform you that two packages
define the same macro. You have to examine carefully the log file to
see where the error appears. It may be useful to set
\errorcontextlines to a higher value in order to see more details
(default value is zero) I usually put \errorcontextlines=999 just
below \documentclass.

> Arash
>
>
>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Arash Zeini <arash.zeini at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks for all the posts. Vafa's mail below answers my question about
>> > recent
>> > changes.
>> >
>> > Loading xkeyval before polyglossia takes care of the problem in the
>> > minimal example, but not in my actual document where I also load
>> > exaccent. In this case I receive complaints about \upperaccent and other
>> > commands being already
>> > defined.
>> >
>> > Arash
>> >
>> > On Wednesday 21 September 2011, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote:
>> > > I do not know about your other error messages but I guess they all
>> > > should be related to fontspec. A similar questions was asked on the
>> > > TeXLive mailing list and Wagner perhaps thought that your question was
>> > > on the TeXLive mailng list; that is why...
>> > >
>> > > fontspec does not load xkeyval anymore (but used to load xkeyval),
>> > > polyglossia uses xkeyval but does not load it since it loads fontspec
>> > > and fontspec used to load xkeyval anymore.
>> > >
>> > > 2011/9/21 Arash Zeini <arash.zeini at gmail.com>
>> > >
>> > > > On Wednesday 21 September 2011, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>> > > > > 2011/9/21 Arash Zeini <arash.zeini at gmail.com>:
>> > > > > > Hello,
>> > > > >
>> > > > > See the previous thread open by Alex Hamann
>> > > >
>> > > > Thanks for your prompt response. I am unable to locate a recent and
>> > > > relevant
>> > > > thread started by Alex Hamann.
>> > > >
>> > > > Vafa's suggestion of loading xkeyval before polyglossia reduces the
>> > > > number of
>> > > > errors drastically but brings up new ones related to exaccent, which
>> > > > I load after xkeyval and polyglossia.
>> > > >
>> > > > My apologies if I am missing the obvious. I am wondering what could
>> >
>> > have
>> >
>> > > > changed in the past week or so.
>> > > >
>> > > > Thanks and best wishes,
>> > > > Arash
>> > > >
>> > > > > > I updated my vanilla TexLive 2011 installation two days ago and
>> >
>> > have
>> >
>> > > > > > since been unable to compile my document correctly. Nothing has
>> > > > > > changed in my document but I now receive 181 error messages, most
>> >
>> > of
>> >
>> > > > > > which relate to polyglossia. Here are some examples:
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Package polyglossia Warning: \english at font@rm is not defined on
>> >
>> > input
>> >
>> > > > > > line 27.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > ! Extra \fi.
>> > > > > > \inlineextras at german ...ds \german at shorthands \fi
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > l.183 ...e (`\textgerman{individuelle Lebensdauer}
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >                                                  ').\footnote{For
>> >
>> > an
>> >
>> > > > > > altern...
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > My editor opens up this section of polyglossia.sty:
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > %% ensure localization of \markright and \markboth commands
>> > > > > > %%% THIS IS NOW DISABLED BY DEFAULT
>> > > > > > \define at boolkey{polyglossia}[xpg@]{localmarks}[false]{%
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >   \ifbool{xpg at localmarks}{%
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >      \xpg at info{Option:~ localmarks}%
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > ...
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > And this minimal example successfully reproduces the errors:
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > \documentclass[a4paper,12pt,oneside]{memoir}
>> > > > > > \usepackage{fontspec}
>> > > > > > \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Linux Libertine O}
>> > > > > > \usepackage{polyglossia}
>> > > > > > \setdefaultlanguage[variant=british]{english}
>> > > > > > \setotherlanguages{german, french}
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > \begin{document}
>> > > > > > \begin{quote}
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >        \textgerman{Die Wahrheit wird, auch hier, in der Mitte der
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Gegensätze liegen \dots}
>> > > > > > \end{quote}
>> > > > > > \end{document}
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Does anyone happen to know what might cause these errors?
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Best wishes,
>> > > > > > Arash
>
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