CTAN update: polyglossia

[CTAN Announcements]

Jürgen Spitzmüller submitted an update to the

polyglossia

package.

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

Summary description: An alternative to babel for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX

Announcement text:
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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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This package is located at
https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/unicodetex/latex/polyglossia

More information is at
https://www.ctan.org/pkg/polyglossia


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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
Manfred Lotz


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