Jürgen Spitzmüller submitted an update to the

polyglossia

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Version number: 1.66 2023-12-11
License type: mit lppl1.3 cc0

Summary description: An alternative to babel for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX

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1.66 (2023/12/02)

Bug fixes
‣ Fix OpenType language and script tags in Chinese (#606).
‣ Fix resetting of language specifications at the end of a local font set with babel legacy means (\foreignlanguage or otherlanguage* environment) (#607).
‣ Fix lowercasing of \textlang’s first mandatory argument. Now the casing does not change (language tag was lower-cased always) (#608).
‣ Add missing BCP-47 alias for Khmer (#611).
‣ Stop \charifavailable from looking ahead for more numbers or gobbling a space (#613).

New Features
‣ Add support for Odia, provided by AviseK Jena and AshoK Das.
‣ New auxiliary package odiadigits
‣ Add auxiliary command \IfCharIsAvailableTF to complement \charifavailable.


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Jürgen Spitzmüller submitted an update to the

polyglossia

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Version: 2.0 2024-02-17
License: mit lppl1.3 cc0

Summary description: An alternative to babel for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX

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2.0 (2024/02/17)

We have bumped the version to 2.0 with this release, not so much since this is a revolutionary issue (it isn't), but (1.) to indicate the slow (and unfinished) transformation of the polyglossia code to latex3 which quite progressed in this release, and (2.) simply since the minor version number got ridiculously large meanwhile.

The most important fix in this release concerns a problem that appeared with the recent l3kernel update and which broke compilation of many documents. As it is quite likely that this hits, or will hit, you if you use polyglossia, we encourage all users to upgrade.

Here is the full list:

Bug fixes
‣ Fix error with undefined property lists that unhides with l3kernel version 2024-02-13 (#626).
‣ Fix frenchfootnote option (#620).
‣ The error message on improper font setting is now correct if the main script
is non-Latin, for non-Roman fonts (#571), and specifically for the CJK case (#621).
‣ Fix expansion of localnumeral (#622).

New Features
‣ Add \inheritbabelshorthands (#604).
‣ Add \usebabelshorthands.
‣ Add shorthands for German gender-sensitive writing.
‣ Implement babel-style hyphenation for Finnish.

Documentation improvements
‣ Fix documentation of Finnish shorthands (#623).

Internal work
‣ The package code has been subjected to a major rewrite. Code has been cleaned
up, and in general, polyglossia more consistently employs latex3 now. Note that
this is an ongoing and yet unfinished project that will continue over the next
releases.

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Jürgen Spitzmüller submitted an update to the

polyglossia

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Version: 2.1 2024-03-07
License: mit lppl1.3 cc0

Summary description: An alternative to babel for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX

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2.1 (2024/03/07)
Bug fixes
‣ Make \foreignlanguage \long again (#622).
‣ Fix otherlanguage* environment (#622).

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