Am Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:08:33 +0200 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: >> 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.
> I could use babel with XeLaTeX without any modification. Well it depends a lot on the language. There is no problem with german, but e.g. the babel-ldf for russian contains font encoding changes absolutly unsuitable for xelatex. The main feature of polyglossia is that is adapts/adds more or less xetex-sensible commands to switch fonts when switching to another language which uses another script. -- Ulrike Fischer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex