Polyglossia
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Polyglossia — is a modern package for facilitating multilingual typesetting with XeLaTeX. It can be used as a replacement of babel for performing the following tasks automatically:
- Loading the appropriate hyphenation patterns.
- Setting the script and language tags of the current font (if possible and available) with the package fontspec.
- Switching to a font assigned by the user to a particular script or language.
- Adjusting some typographical conventions in function of the current language:
- afterindent
- frenchindent
- spaces before or after punctuation
- Redefining all document strings (like "Part", "Figure", "Bibliography").
- Adapting the formatting of dates (for non-gregorian calendars with external packages bundled with polyglossia: currently the hebrew, islamic and farsi calendars are supported).
- For languages that have their own numeration system, modifying the formatting of numbers appropriately (this also includes redefining the alphabetic sequence for non-Latin alphabets).
- Ensuring the proper directionality if the text are written from right to left (via the package bidi, available separately).
[edit] List of supported languages
[edit] Sources
François Charette. "Polyglossia: A Babel Replacement for XeLaTeX". CTAN. http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/polyglossia/polyglossia.pdf. Retrieved 28 January 2010.ru:Polyglossia