2011/9/25 Javier Bezos <lis...@tex-tipografia.com>: > >> I have received a private mail from François Charette saying that he >> no longer has time to maintain polyglossia and he offered the package >> to others to become maintainers. I myself will not have any time tilll >> the end of this year and moreover do not know git and have no time to >> learn it. If someone is able to clone it, migrate it to subversion (or >> cvs) and become a new maintainer, i will actively join the team of >> developers in January 2012. > > On the other hand, I intend to provide a XeTeX back-end for babel > in short. I've made some tests and I was able to typeset a document > in Russian with babel and a few additional macros. I presume I'll > start working by November. > > Not that I like babel, but it's what most users want and what most > TUGs support. > I could use babel with XeLaTeX without any modification. The problem is that in non-unicode babel a lot of things is implemented via active characters. Thus if you use czech or slovak option, \cline ceases to work. If you use slovak or latin option, accent \^ is no longer available. There are a lot of other tricky clashes that can break multilingual documents where parts are written by different authors. One journal had a problem with English + French + Chinese + Arabic + a lof of math and linguistic diagrams. It took me almost a week to solve all these problems and typeset all what the authors wished.
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