[XeTeX] Polyglossia 1.0.2: babelshorthands broken?

[Rolf Schmolling]

Hi,
get same results (TeXLive 2008, all available updates via  
TeXLiveUtility, but don't know the polyglossia-version used, b.t.w.  
how would I find out- I am on a Mac with OSX 10.5.6)

Greetings,

Rolf


Am 28.01.2009 um 17:20 schrieb Gerrit Glabbart:

> Hi,
>
> There's a new feature in Polyglossia 1.0.2 that I'd really like to  
> use:
>
> The "babelshorthands" option enables all the fine-tuning macros that
> Babel offers for hyphenating in the German language. The manual
> explicitly calls this option experimental, but I haven't been able to
> use it at all so far.
>
> Does this compile for anybody?:
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> %%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
> %%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
> \documentclass{minimal}
>
> \usepackage{polyglossia}
> \setdefaultlanguage[babelshorthands=true]{german}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> Hier könnte Ihre Nachricht stehen!
>
> \end{document}
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> What I get is this error:
>
>> ! Missing { inserted.
>> <to be read again>
>>                   „
>> l.8 \begin{document}
>>
>> ?
>> Process aborted
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Gerrit.
>
>
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