[XeTeX] Polyglossia 1.0.2: babelshorthands broken?

[Nicolas Vaughan]

Hi,

I've just updated TeXLive 2008 and got the new polyglossia package (1.0.2).

I could not compile your example. I get this error:

! Missing { inserted.
<to be read again>
  ÔÇ×
l.8 \begin{document}

Cheers!

Nicolas Vaughan


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Rolf Schmolling <
rolf.schmolling at alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote:

> 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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