[XeTeX] babel

Ulrike Fischer news3 at nililand.de
Tue Sep 4 09:45:14 CEST 2012


Am Mon, 3 Sep 2012 20:16:22 +0200 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:

>>> Some times ago, I read that babel will be compatible with xelatex.

>>> I would like to use babel with french and sanskrit languages, do I have
>>> any chance to succeed?

> Maintainig babel is important for (pdf)latex which is still in use but
> for XeLaTeX I would suggest polyglossia which already works.

Francois asked about french. gloss-french.ldf has around 100 lines
of code. A current frenchb.ldf for babel about 1200. French people
can't currently do without babel. 



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