[XeTeX] Question about polyglossia and babel

[Vadim Radionov]

Vladimir,

You know, that Russian babel short-hands do slightly more than just insert a
glyph from the font: they adjust the spacing around the em-dash (and the
length of the dash, too), and allow hyphenation of adjacent words (in case
of hyphens).  So even in the case of Unicode input we need some macros to do
this job.

Vadim

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl at gmail.com> wrote:

> ** Alexander [2010-05-29 10:57:05 +0900]:
>
> > Hello. What the best way to use commands "--- and others (works in
> > babel with Russian language) in XeTeX with polyglossia?
> xe(la)tex is Unicode-aware tex engine so you don't
> need any special package or command to insert dashes. So just insert
> them into document which you should edit in utf8 encoding (e.g.
> texworks, vim or emacs).
>
>
> P.S.
> There is a problem how to process old (read: written for babel)
> documents using xelatex. The answer would be: use 'babelshorthands' but
> Russian doesn't have shorthands support.
>
> If you in hurry you could take
> 'polyglossia.sty' and 'gloss-russian.ldf' from github.com
> (github.com/vp1981/polyglossia, use branch 'alph_unif' and take these
> files from there) and put them into directory with such documents.
>
> ---
> WBW, Vladimir Lomov
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