[XeTeX] XeLaTeX, polyglossia, babel, hyperref, fontspec, ...

[TeXWorld]

Yves Codet a écrit :
> Hello.
>
> Le 5 sept. 08 à 23:57, TeXWorld a écrit :
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>> Can I continue using babel (with french option) without problem or
>> should I use polyglossia ?
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> If you want your texts to be in pure Unicode Polyglossia seems to be  
> a better choice.
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>> Is Polyglossia as powerful as babel ?
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> If you're alluding to macros such as \og and \up{e} they don't exist  
> in Polyglossia and you don't need them: just type « or ᵉ.
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>> I have always been told to load babel and hyperref packages at the
>> end of preamble. What about xlxtra and fontspec and polyglossia ?  
>> Should
>> I load them before or after babel or hyperref ?
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> About hyperref I don't know. As Peter said xltxtra loads fontspec, so  
> you can only load the first one. As far as I know it doesn't matter  
> whether you load fontspec before polyglossia or the other way round.  
> But why would you load both polyglossia and babel? You want your text  
> to be in pure Unicode or you want to use babel's macros.
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>   
Thank you. I don't expect babel and polyglossia to be loaded both (just 
one). I was just looking for
advices about them just to know what is better to load and better to 
avoid problems with xelatex.
I also wanted to know advantages and drawbacks of polyglossia.


Jack