2012/9/4 François Patte <francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 03/09/2012 20:16, Zdenek Wagner a écrit : >> 2012/9/3 Javier Bezos <lis...@tex-tipografia.com>: >>> François, >>> >>> >>>> Some times ago, I read that babel will be compatible with >>>> xelatex. >>>> >>>> I would like to use babel with french and sanskrit languages, do >>>> I have any chance to succeed? >>> >> Maintainig babel is important for (pdf)latex which is still in use >> but for XeLaTeX I would suggest polyglossia which already works. > > Dear Zednek, > > Thank you for all these information about sanskrit (I knew some but > others are useful). My main problem is French: babel French is really a > very good help for French typography while French with polyglossia is > very poor! > That's bad news! I thought that François Charette implemented French in Polyglossia well. What is missing? Maybe it could be implemented fast. And are there good OpenType fonts for French? I know that French uses tiny spaces preceding double punctuation. This is a similar case as in Hindi where some spaces are used in front of question marks and exclamation marks (I found it i some article written by an Indian typographer). IMHO it should be a property of a font, not of a typesetting system. GNU FreeFont already contains such language features. Probably Steve White would know how to implement Language=French so that colons, semicolons, question and exclamation marks had proper French spacing.
> If I could find somewhere a "Rosetta stone" to translate babel French > into polyglossia French, I certainly try to make this translation! > > As for Devanagary script, I don't know FreeSerif fonts, I'll try them. I > presently use Velthuis fonts with the devnag preprocessor. > You would like FreeSerif because its Devanagari block is derived directly from the Velthuis PFB files. > Thanks again. > > F.P. > > - -- > François Patte > UFR de mathématiques et informatique > Laboratoire MAP5 --- UMR CNRS 8145 > Université Paris Descartes > 45, rue des Saints Pères > F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 > Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849 > http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlBFs98ACgkQdE6C2dhV2JVb8wCfT3T31yFv7r7Wm6k1uRZ3tV1I > v8UAnjMGFO7uQMtBIb89Xn+peq5fBfif > =RDtS > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex