Re: [XeTeX] babel

Hi Javier, On Mar 24, 2016, at 5:59 PM, Javier Bezos > wrote: Apostolos, preface = \textPi \textrho\acctonos \textomicron\textlambda \textomicron\textgamma XeLaTeX is Unicode aware and can handle Unicode strings. Therefore, I fail to see why you

Re: [XeTeX] babel

Apostolos, preface = \textPi \textrho\acctonos \textomicron\textlambda \textomicron\textgamma XeLaTeX is Unicode aware and can handle Unicode strings. Therefore, I fail to see why you are doing things this way. The LGR font encoding is an ancient hack that has no usage anymore. Of course,

Re: [XeTeX] babel

Mojca, Thank you. See me reply to Zdeněk. What is the difference between months.format.wide and months.stand-alone.wide? In most languages, none. This distinction is made by the CLDR, but I wonder if it's useful here, so very likely the format branch should be removed. In Slovenian one

Re: [XeTeX] babel

On 23 March 2016 at 19:31, Javier Bezos wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on a new version of babel, with a new way to define > languages in a descriptive way, more than in a programmatic one (of > course, the latter won't be excluded because it's still necessary). > >

Re: [XeTeX] babel

Apostolos, > preface = \textPi \textrho\acctonos \textomicron\textlambda \textomicron\textgamma > > XeLaTeX is Unicode aware and can handle Unicode strings. Therefore, I fail to see > why you are doing things this way. The LGR font encoding is an ancient hack that > has no usage anymore.

Re: [XeTeX] babel

Zdeněk, Thank you very much. Very useful, and you confirm my suspect the data in the CLDR is not always reliable. Furthermore, it's obvious it's intended mainly for displaying plain text in some especific contexts and not for fine typesetting. At first my idea was to sinchronize more or less